akmod vs. kmod

[Denis Leroy]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 15.06.2008 18:48, Richi Plana wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the late reply.
> 
>> I've noticed that in livna, there are two kernel modules available for
>> nvidia: akmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia. Are they exclusive of each other
>> (iow, only one should be installed on a system)?
> 
> Nope.
> 
>> My understanding is
>> that akmods are compiled whenever any new kernel is installed. Is that
>> correct?
> 
> akmod packages contain the kernel module sources and a RPM Spec file (a 
> kmod src.rpm to be precise); the akmods scripts will use this to compile 
> a kmod that gets installed automatically
> 
>> Are there instructions on how to use akmods? (ie. when to
>> update kernels and when to reboot)
> 
> /me tends to say "Just do it."
> 
> Normally it should "just work" by installing a akmod package; the kmods 
> will then get build on kernel install or during startup on the next reboot

Thorsten, do you have some doc on how akmod works somewhere ? Or should 
we just look at the existing ones and figure things out :-) i'll try to 
submit an akmod version of open-vm-tools...