On 05/29/2009 09:47 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
There is a solution to this particular point, which it seems many
who
use kmods don't seem to know about: akmods. Install the akmod for your
kmod, and if the pre-built kmod hasn't yet been updated when a new
kernel is released, the akmod handles the problem (it gets automatically
built at boot time).
I've used dkms (the infrastructural package is in Fedora although
there's no modules in fedora to use it). It seems similar to what you
describe.
That doesn't address all the other problems, of course, which are
valid.
And it doesn't help if the new kernel happens to have changed the
interface somehow so the module source doesn't build any more. But there
This ended up being the blocker for my personal use. For FESCo, I
remember the requirement that gcc and other build tools were needed on
an end user system was a big issue.
-Toshio