dkms for fc7?

[Denis Leroy]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote :
> 
>> I know there was some discussion about dkms for fedora.  It seemed (to me)
>> mostly positive.  Is there interest in pushing this forward for fc7?
> 
> This has already been discussed before :
> 
> 1) dkms is in Fedora (Extras), so you're good to go.
> 2) Fedora seems to be more interested in working on a long term
> solution for kernel modules, having them cleanly available as rpm
> packages, instead of starting using dkms.
> 
> I perfectly understand the decision, but went for the best short term
> solution already available (IMHO), dkms, in my freshrpms.net
> packages ;-) And it's been a real success given all the positive
> feedback I get, especially for the nvidia driver. Not to mention how
> it's made life soooo much easier for me to track Rawhide on my home
> computer which has a madwifi chip and and lirc_serial remote control!

I'm one of those happy users. I use it for the nvidia, ntfs, ndiswrapper 
and madwifi drivers. It just works. Personally I don't see the 
advantages of having "clean" rpms for each module versus the elegant 
dkms solution, but to each his/her own...