Hacking modversions

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:10 PM -0800 "Barry K. Nathan" 
<barryn at pobox.com> wrote:

> Perhaps DKMS would be a more suitable solution then...

I'm reading the white paper and this looks like something that should be in 
Fedora, at least in Extras if not in Core. This paper posted on the DKMS 
project page is a pretty approachable introduction for driver developers 
and sysadmins:

<http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf>

I was surprised when looking at my FC2 RPM directory that DKMS wasn't 
included, given how useful this looks.

I'm not so much interested in drivers as experimental modules like the 
latest stuff in netfilter. (The U32 match target and the TARPIT destination 
look intriguing.) RH has a policy of not including these in its kernels, 
which is reasonable for the majority of users, but it would be great to be 
able to use something like DKMS to package and install these without 
needing a custom-compiled kernel.