> I am not sure. I have to look at it. I am not sure of the consequences of having > 2 sets of modules in the kernel with different names. I suppose it would not > matter as long as the correct modules got loaded. > > > you'd have to rebuild it with each kernel update but <shrug> that's not > > very hard. > > I already have to rebuild on kernel upgrade, so this is not any additional work. > It is for this reason that the kernels on these machines only get upgraded if > there are remote exploits or stability problems. They are remote unattended > machines with no local users. Some of them are up 8 or 9 months. No stability > problems there. :-) This is something I've discussed with others before. something in yum or any update tool that allow you to spawn off an arbitrary script when pkgx gets updated/installed/removed so if kernel gets updated/installed then something spawns off a "rebuild this module" script. So the next time the system boots that module is all happy. -sv
