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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
