Never heard of Driver Update Program. Can you provide links/further info ? Is this different than dkms ? perhaps you mean kmod kernel modules ?
--Chris
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:23:11 +0100 From: Jaroslaw Polok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Adding driver to installation Hi all Not sure how the procedure at Driver Update Program worked for others, but we sucessfully use it now on SL(C)5.2 here at CERN for few drivers (updated e1000e, e1000, ixgbe (with ioatdma) etc) We intend to have it also for other add-on kernel modules (whenever possible ... some modules may not be cross-kernel version compatible due to usage of functions not in stable RHEL 5 kernel ABI ..) .. of course we will still need to produce driver disks for installations - but with the recent driver disk kit from RH this is also easier: not only such driver disk image contains kernel modules but also rpms and yum repository information: as a result during install time updated/add-on driver can be used and after install corresponding rpms are installed on the system (and since these are packaged according to DUP guidelines .. there is no need to upgrade them with each and every kernel upgrade) Sounds like less of work with kernel upgrades, right ? ;-) Cheers Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _ ------------------------------ End of SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS Digest - 20 Nov 2008 to 25 Nov 2008 (#2008-278) *****************************************************************************
