Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell ... | Subject | [announce] dkms - enhancements for 2.5 + UnitedLinux initrd suppo rt | Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:16:26 -0500 |
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Following the handy pointers at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=105676403229397&w=2, dkms now uses 2.5's makefile goodies. Specifically, if it detects a kernel > 2.4, it ignores any MAKE commands in the dkms.conf for your module and instead uses `make -C $kernel_source_dir SUBDIRS=$build_dir modules`. It also doesn't do a make dep during the kernel prep (though for SuSE, I left the make CONFIG_MODVERSION=1 dep for 2.5 since I didn't know whether it will be needed).
I also added support for modifying SuSE/UnitedLinux initrds. While this already exists for RH type things, the mkinitrd stuff seems to vary per distro. For UL, if REMAKE_INITRD is set in the dkms.conf, during the `add` it modifies /etc/sysconfig/kernel and puts a reference in INITRD_MODULES and during the final remove it removes it from this list. Then, as modules are installed, it calls the generic mk_initrd command which remakes all the initrds it seems to know about. While this might return exit status 9 if some kernels don't have this module, this process seems the best and simplest way to go about automating the initrd process for UL. Comments always welcome (btw, we have a shiny new dkms-devel@lists.us.dell.com mailing list for anyone interested).
Gary Lerhaupt Linux Development Dell Computer Corporation
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