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--- Comment #3 from Susanne Oberhauser 2008-08-04 11:43:54 MDT ---
The linux foundation has dedicated a workgroup to this topic
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Driver_Backport
In this workgroup we have active Novell, RH, canonical and dell and IBM.
We have agreed to focus our energies for the distributions to precompiled
modules, as that is the only means to assert predictable behaviour in case of
kernel updates.
without that, a recompile may (and sometimes will) fail. depending on the
module this will leave the system in a non-bootable state.
for that reason we've identified dkms as a a great tool help with the backport
and developer build of backported modules, or modules that are on their way
into mainline, still, but we've also concluded that source distribution to end
users does more harm than good to Linux distribution users as a failing kernel
update is hard to recover from.
The workgroup has agreed to develop a simple standard format to feed driver
tarballs and backport patches into dkms, and that can indeed be used to
automate the build, but we believe it should be used in something like the
build service, not on the end user system, to avoid unexpected, hard to recover
from failures after kernel updates.
hth?
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