> 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 __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _