> I have been wondering if SL can adopt kABI-tracking kmod packages.

I guess it could , Troy ? Connie ?

We do it for SL CERN, so far following add-on/replacement modules are 
packaged and distributed this way:

e1000    ( 8.0.6  )
e1000e   ( 0.5.11 )
ixgbe    ( 1.3.56 )
ioatdma  ( 2.15.4 )
3w-9xxx  ( 9.5.1 )
aacraid  ( 1.1.5_2459 )
madwifi  ( 0.9.4 )
fuse     ( 2.6.3 )
lin_tape  ( 1.24.0 )

(above are updated versions of in-kernel drivers
that we need for given hardware )

If you want to take these into SL, please feel free
(just rebuilding SRPMS found at 
http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/extras/SRPMS/
with --define "dist .SL" will give you 'SL'ized packages)

Please note that following modules cannot be shipped
that way:

openafs
nvidia
fglrx

- all use symbols outside of RHEL 5 'stable kernel ABI'

We use the Driver Update Program (http://dup.et.redhat.com/)
packaging at CERN since few months and it works very well
for us.

Jarek

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