[CentOS-devel] dkms or akmod?
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.comWed Apr 30 14:43:32 UTC 2008
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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 ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.
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