Nicolas Mailhot wrote : > I think that for most people who tried it: > 1. dkms vs in-core module: dkms loses > 2. dkms vs other form of external modules (kmdl or fedora-style) : dkms wins. I confirm that for my own case. > Also dkms will increase the pressure on not applying fedora-specific > patches over the upstream kernel. Don't know if it's a good or a bad thing > (I know davej's opinion) I'm not sure I understand the first sentence correctly :-/ If you meant that it will reduce pressure to apply Fedora specific patches, it's probably a good thing for the Fedora kernel maintainers, since a parallel effort can be made to get the module(s) into the upstream kernel, unless of course the Fedora kernel maintainers get swamped with bug reports where kernels are tainted and/or running buggy modules that don't come from the Fedora kernel... But this discussion is also valid for the kmod packaging scheme anyway. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.92 (FC6 Test3) - Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2726.fc6 Load : 1.43 1.46 1.20 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
