DKMS and old kernel modules

Michel Salim michel.sylvan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 21:51:28 UTC 2007


On 09/09/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2007, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> > On So September 9 2007, Michel Salim wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure what the best solution is. Trigger a cleanup process in the
> > > DKMS initscript, which would operate if the kernel booted is not the
> > > same as at the previous boot?
> >
> > Proposed is a trigger when an old kernel is removed.
> >
> > > (will Bugzilla this if people think it's a good idea)
> >
> > It's alread there:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250377
> >
>
> I thought that dkms had the ability to build an rpm and then install
> that. That would be the ideal solution.
>
Matt Domsch, who is (AFAIK) in charge of DKMS development, did not
mention that at all.

No kernel developer has weighed in on that discussion, it seems. Ping?

-- 
Michel




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