hi all!
First of all, congratulations with 5.1(beta) release. Unfortunately I am traveling now and will not be able to to make a good test (maybe just a little with my laptop). From v5.0 cycle I can remember a bunch of unsolved drag-n-drop bugs.
"Linux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding"
Why not DKMS? the idea is to handle Linux kernel updates gracefully.
Thanks,
-Technologov
Question about Linux DKMS + congratulations
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Re: Question about Linux DKMS + congratulations
The short story is that there isn't anything inherently wrong with DKMS, but it isn't always available. And maintaining one solution is easier than maintaining two.
Re: Question about Linux DKMS + congratulations
Could you clarify what other solution you have in mind? Does it solve the problem with kernel updates?
Re: Question about Linux DKMS + congratulations
Basically we were implementing most of the functionality of DKMS ourselves for systems where it was not installed. And since there were regular if sporadic reports of DKMS going wrong, we decided to just implement the last few missing bits (basically automatically rebuilding kernel modules) ourselves and drop DKMS support.