kqemu is now GPLv2

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Feb 7 19:29:10 UTC 2007


Matt Domsch (matt at domsch.com) said: 
> At FUDCon, several of us (Jeremy, Thorsten, Jon Masters, and I)
> discussed adding a clean method into /sbin/installkernel to allow
> tools like DKMS to hook at that point and rebuild kernel modules if
> necessary (and if possible).  Right now the DKMS autoinstaller runs as
> a service at reboot time, which is really too late for some things.
> So, if you've got module source, and a compiler, and if the source
> builds and works for your new kernel version, you'll be ok.  Lots of
> ifs, but better than absolutely nothing.

Have the kernel module packages be 'source' with dependencies on gcc,
etc.; then, via triggers, they can automatically rebuild and copy for
any kernel.

Bill, trigger-happy...




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