Managing kernel-updates in rpm

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue Mar 25 08:42:13 EDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:54:12PM +0530, Saket Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>        We have a rpm which installs a linux kernel driver. Now this
> driver has some kernel-level dependencies especially Development Tools
> (kernel-headers etc) such that they depend on running kernel version.

I'd ask you first off, why is your kernel driver not merged upstream
with the main kernel.org releases, to prevent any of these issues from
ever happening?

Do you have a pointer to your driver somewhere so we can look at it to
determine what is needed to be done to get it merged properly?

thanks,

greg k-h



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