Jaroslaw Polok 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 can start by putting them into contrib, and then migrate them into the 
main release.  But let's start with contrib and work from there.

This would only by for SL 5 correct?
And which yum plugin works with these kernel modules?
And, is this going to still work with SL6 (RHEL6)?  I know it's not out 
yet, but does anyone have any good guesses.

Troy
p.s. Does this actually fix the XFS, and other related problems?
p.p.s. I will look at CentOS Extras and ElRepo.  But I'd like to start 
with Cern's packages first.
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