Re: RFS: dkms

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Subject: Re: RFS: dkms
From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:01:39 +0200
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David Paleino wrote:
>  DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded
>  without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as
>  you upgrade kernels.

please elaborate on the advantages of this compared to the approach
debian has taken: modules-source packages with m-a and prebuild modules
through conglomeration packages.

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