On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:21:25 +0200, simonizor wrote:
On Friday, July 19, 2019 9:25:32 AM CDT, Takashi Iwai wrote:
DKMS is "just works" only because you know about DKMS, too.
Actually, I know next to nothing about it other than it allows me to use drivers such as NVIDIA with pretty much any kernel version without having to worry. I used Ubuntu's nvidia-dkms driver package for quite some time on many different kernel versions without ever having to do anything myself. This is not ever the case for KMP.
Well, that's the difference by how to look at the whole process. You've got positive results, but it's just merely because someone already worked on it to make things working before you try. That's not DKMS that fixes the build issues by the kernel API changes automagically. You haven't seen the people behind the scene, hence you'd believe it being DKMS as an exposed result. That said, pushing DKMS into Tumbleweed or Kernel:stable *alone* won't help much as advertised. Someone still needs to step in and resolve the issues quickly. It's irrelevant whether DKMS or KMP. Unfortunately, on openSUSE, a fix for Nvidia or such is often behind Ubuntu simply because fewer developers are interested in it. And, if the problem is about pure packaging, it should be reported as quickly as possible to Bugzilla, and we're going to address it in timely manner. Switching to DKMS should be discussed only after it's confirmed that this kind of feedback cycle doesn't work well. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org