You're making too much sense here, David :)

Scott Rohling

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:40 AM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> > You also have to rebuild the thing after each kernel update.  Kind of a
> pain.
> > Especially if you forget and it's not functional anymore :)
>
> Look into DKMS. It can be configured to rebuild kernel modules
> automagically  when the kernel changes. Works fine for most of the parallel
> filesystem stuff we do, and that stuff gets really intimate with various
> bits of the kernel, far more so than the lin_tape driver does.
>
> Still, if IBM would document the ATL interface or provide a decent DFSMS
> RMM interface over TCP, we wouldn't have to mess with this driver idiocy
> release after release; we could just build it into 'mt' like the rest of the
> world has done. Or TSM could buy a clue and support the drives that most of
> us ACTUALLY have.
>
> There I go, thinking again.
>
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