DKMS 0.25.14 is available here.

* Added mkdriverdisk support. This will make a floppy driver disk image for the driver that you specify. Currently, the only driver disk distro supported is Red Hat. For example: dkms mkdriverdisk -m qla2x00 -v v6.04.00 -k 2.4.18-3BOOT -d redhat.

* New -d, --distro parameter. This is only used currently with mkdriverdisk. Otherwise, dkms should be distro agnostic.

* Added support to rename drivers after they are built. This can be specified in dkms.conf as such: MODULE_NAME="qla2200.o:qla2200_6x.o qla2300.o". In this particular example, the 2200 driver would be installed as qla2200_6x.o while the qla2300 driver is installed without name change as qla2300.o.

* Internally, symlink locations are now determined by using the readlink command.

* Added the Red Hat BOOT config as one of the config files that dkms looks for during builds. This allows building for redhat boot kernels without having to specify the --config option.

* Fixed a bug in read_conf that caused the wrong MAKE_ subdirective to be used.

* You no longer must be root to run a dkms build

* Updated the man page

By Gary at 04:40 PM in Linux | Comments (0)