Farkas Levente wrote:
hi, we've to build a few kernel modules for rhel/centos which is not included in the distro (or not working yet, like RTL8101E: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8101). currently there are three ways for this:
- the obsoleted fedora way http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Obsolete/KernelModules
- dkms
- akmod. livna development start to use akmod for all new
modules, but there is not any kind of docs about it (or at least i can't find it). i'd like to hear a few pros and cons about each of these and why should we use the "good" one?:-) what's centos teams plan for the future? and why livna switch from the obsoleted fedora way to akmod instead of dkms? thank you for your help in advance. yours.
You should ask livna why they chose akmod.
As for third party kernel modules, I prefer dkms here, but we're a Dell shop anyways so I suppose we are biased.
dkms works well, and it's included in epel.
-Ross
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