>>>>> "AG" == Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: AG> One caveat with this is that the compilability of an out of tree AG> module does not always last very long at the moment. For example AG> the config.h being deprecated has caused a lot of drivers to choke AG> at make time. While that's true, one nice thing is that this breakage is generally known well ahead of time, and so new module packages that include patches for the breakage can be pushed asynchronously with the new release. So a package could have been released a few weeks ago when it was known that config.h was going away, even though 2.6.19 was far from release then. The non-DKMS scheme requires the actual released kernel packages to be used to build the modules, so updated packages will always trail the updated kernel. The downside of the DKMS modules is that they require a development environment. Personally I don't understand why that is even an issue given how we treat modules in general (as something to be avoided whenever possible) but it's been stated as the single most important reason why Fedora doesn't use DKMS-based kernel module packages. - J<
