Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #308323, revision 15 Title: Integration Dynamic Kernel Module Support - openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) + reject reason: not done for 11.3. Priority Requester: Important - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thomas Beimel (rheydtergekko) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Integrate DKMS in openSuSE repositories Especially for more unexperienced users, it is a hassle to compile kernel modules again and again if a kernel update is executed automatically. For such users it would be much easier if kernel modules e.g. needed for virtual machines like VirtualBox would be recompiled and reconfigured automatically like in other distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora,... with DKMS. I think DKMS is one great feature that openSuSE misses and has to include. Example why DKMS is so important: Different rather unexperienced users that I convinced using Linux like the GUI etc. and miss the abilities to work with simple commands on the terminal. So if they cannot get help from another person, they would not be able to use their preconfigured virtual machine anymore because of an mandatory kernel update that is made automatically. Please add Dynamic Kernel Module Support to SuSE soon! More info: http://linux.dell.com/dkms/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-12-30 20:12:21) What does it have that KMP does not? #2: Rémy Marquis (spyhawk) (2010-03-07 01:03:28) Seems to be a duplicate of https://features.opensuse.org/305148 (https://features.opensuse.org/305148) #3: Patrick Dubeau (daax) (2010-09-01 04:19:50) As a user of Mandriva Linux, I clearly vote for this one, for the sake of simplicity. #4: vincent lejeune (vlj) (2010-09-01 23:46:02) I have already created a package in my OBS repo : home:vlj dkms the advantage of dkms over KMP is that user can easily build (and use) drivers that cannot be distributed as KMP for licensing reasons : dkms build locally package as long as the user provide module source code. It is automatically rebuilt at kernel upgrade as KMP. Such kernel module that can't be provided by opensuse team as KMP : - nvidia - emgd - broadcom - perhaps fglrx ? - Qualcomm chipset - ... + #6: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-12-02 15:34:29) (reply to #4) + What about submitting this to openSUSE:Factory? #5: James Mason (bear454) (2010-11-10 05:05:33) Commercially supported by Dell since 2003, implemented in Ubuntu since 8.04, Fedora since 12, mandriva, etc. When oh when will we get this simpler external kernel module goodness? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308323