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