[CentOS-devel] dkms or akmod?

Wed Apr 30 11:40:38 UTC 2008
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at bppiac.hu>

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.

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"