DKMS 0.44.05 is now available (tarball or RPM):

* Changed $MODULES_CONF_ALIAS_TYPE to an array that is a part of the $BUILT_MODULE_NAME[#] / $DEST_MODULE_NAME[#] array family. This allows you to specify different alias types for different modules within a single DKMS package. $MODULES_CONF_OBSOLETES[#] (explained below) is also part of this directive array family.

* Added DKMS directive array $MODULES_CONF_OBSOLETES[#]. This directive should be used to specify the modules that your newer module makes obsolete. During install, DKMS will look for entries for these modules in /etc/modules.conf if the corresponding $MODULES_CONF_ALIAS_TYPE[#] entry is set and will remove these. As you uninstall modules, DKMS will first try to put an original module back into the kernel. If it does this, it will leave the reference to the non-obsolete module in modules.conf. If no original_module exists in the kernel, but an obsolete module does, DKMS will put the obsolete module reference back into modules.conf and remake the initrd. If neither exist, it will just remove the non-obsolete reference and replace it with nothing.

* As well, the $MODULES_CONF_OBSOLETES directive can be used to specify multiple modules which are made obsolete. This should be done by setting the variable to a comma-delimited list (eg. ="megaraid,megaraid_2002"). During uninstall, if no original module is found, DKMS attempts to instead use an obsolete module giving priority to the leftmost entry in the variable.

* Updated the man page to better explain how DKMS handles modules.conf changes.

By Gary at 03:18 PM in Linux | Comments (0)