On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Jaroslaw Polok<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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

I would like to add that the ELRepo project ( http://elrepo.org ) has
a number of kABI-tracking kmods listed at:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/Packages

that are also based upon Jon Masters' program.  Many of the packages
are device drivers and some are filesystem support such as reiserfs.

Akemi