Managing kernel-updates in rpm

[Saket Sinha]

Hi Greg,

Please find my response inline-

>>
>>        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?
>
   Its a proprietary driver so its not meant to be the part of
mainline kernel.  :(

> 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?
>

I am sorry but I am not allowed to do that.

Regards,
Saket Sinha