Le Ven 19 janvier 2007 15:42, Denis Leroy a écrit : > 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... dkms sort of works for kernel levels out-of-tree drivers bother to support ; finding a working combinaison of kernel & out-of-tree driver versions quickly degenerates (even for big drivers like nvidia) Out-of-tree driver writer 1 will say "I only support 2.6.x proper" Out-of-tree driver writer 2 will say "I only support up to 2.6.x-rcy" davej will say "I'll ship 2.6.x.3 in because previous releases are missing a critical fix and that matches the Fedora release schedule" Of course you can personnally wait a few weeks for everything to settle, but you are depending on the people not using out-of-tree drivers to test and stabilize the kernel for you. If dkms is generalized these people won't exist anymore. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
