Fwd: akmods for RHEL5

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 19.05.2009 22:06, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Josh Borke wrote:
>> I recently worked on getting an akmod package for RHEL5 for my work to
>> actually be useful.  I know that there has been interest in getting
>> akmod for RHEL so I thought I would share what I had to do.
> for rhel/centos/epel there is no need for akmod since rhel release
> kernel are kabi compatible which means weak-updates can be used for all
> kernel in a given release (that's why centos ships weak-updates kmods).

Yes and no. People sometimes want to use self-compiled kernels or 
kernels other then those from RHEL5. akmods provides a solution if those 
people need the kernel modules from RPM Fusion for those kernels.

CU
knurd