Juan Carlos wrote:
>I'm sure there are people out there who have to build kernel modules
>for their hardware as well. But it is a bit of a pain to keep doing
>that each time there is a newe kernel security update. So is anyone
>using scripts to automate this process that they would like to share?
>It's not like each computer has different hardware, it is all the same
>but not all of them have tools like gcc and kernel source installed.
>Only one computer where I compile stuff. Easier to maintain this way.
>What do you think?
>
>
Although it's not a hardware module, I have to rebuild a kernel module
for MPPE in order to use pptpclient for VPN. Like your situation, this
module has to be recompiled every time I upgrade the kernel. The
pptpclient project recommends "DKMS" (Dynamic Kernel Module Support)
which is sponsored by Dell. It works great on my system; every time the
kernel is upgraded, the module is automatically recompiled and installed
at boot time. Maybe this might work for you...
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html
It has pretty decent commands for tracking which kernel modules exist
for which kernel versions, etc.
-Greg
