Re: kmods poll

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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:21 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 08:04 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> > I'm mostly just rambling.  In the past, there has been some vocal
> > dissent for having kmods period, so I wanted to know the opinions from
> > people on a more targeted list than fedora-devel.
> 
> Officially, there may only be two, but obviously third parties will
> supply others - so we need the infrastructure.
> 
> In fact, I'm working on a project to allow automatic, online driver
> updates via kmods - I'll have more to say in due course on that.

Is that why there are the "updates" and "weak-updates" directories
in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ today?

I've been wondering about those.  And what would they be used for?  E.g.
updating e1000 when there's a bugfix that doesn't really require the
whole kernel to be spun again?

josh

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