RE: Forgive the rant...but - Some better ideas

[Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com>]

May I please second Nathan's suggestion? How about a concrete example or
2 - using DKMS, strings, scripts - whatever it takes to put this nVidia
driver to bed? It'd be really nice to have a new kernel update ready to
fly once up2date has finished it's task. I've read the DKMS papers.
Seems like a really slick solution. I'd like a little more tutorial /
examples before venturing off on my own. Frankly, I'm surprised by all
the response I've gotten. Thanks all.

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 17:20, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Brian Long wrote:
> 
> >>  Anyone know of a way
> >> to detect when a new kernel is booting for the first time. Is so, then the
> >> script could be chkconfig'ed back on.
> >
> > We use strings on the nvidia.o on each boot (we never chkconfig off our
> > init script).  It looks for kernel_version and if that string does not
> > match the booting kernel, it recompiles nvidia.o.
> >
> 
> Feel like sharing with the rest of the class?
> 
> -n
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Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com>