----- "Skylar Thompson" <sky...@cs.earlham.edu> wrote: > It's useful because it will automatically build and install existing > kernel modules for newly-installed kernels. Many vendors ship drivers > as RPMs separate from the kernel, so they won't get updated when the > kernel is updated unless you use something like dkms.
Problem is that DKMS won't help if the kernel developers have changed the fundamental structures in the kernel (as they are wont to do) and the out-of-tree module you have breaks as a result. Even worse if that's a binary only module (witness nVidia having to push a new driver out to cope with the 2.6.30 kernels). The best solution is to prod your vendor into pushing their module upstream into the mainline kernel so those fixes are done for them (free maintenance work!); or else buy systems that are not reliant on out-of-tree modules (which we are lucky enough to have managed to do recently). cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
