[elrepo] kmod -> driver disk

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Phil Perry wrote:

> On 03/01/11 12:35, Mário Barbosa wrote:
>
>> Can anyone give me some quick pointers as to how to merge some of these
>> kmod's into a driver disk to be used at install time?
>>
>> My personal needs/wishes involve the sk98lin and the r8192se modules,
>> but I am looking for a general approach on how to do this for "any"
>> combination of drivers to be used on both el5 and el6 installs.
>
> ELRepo packages kmods using Red Hat's Driver Update Programme framework:
>
> http://dup.et.redhat.com/
>
> As a starting point, take a look at the section entitled "Building a
> Driver Update Disk".
>
> I've not personally built any driver update disks, so perhaps someone on
> this list might have the relevant experience to assist further, or you
> can let us know how you get on.
>
> As mentioned in the above article, only storage and network drivers
> really need to be installed using driver disks during installation,
> anything else can be installed from an optional add-on repository.

Not sure if it is at all possible, but wouldn't it be nice to have a 
single driver disk with all ELRepo drivers on it. And which gets update 
for every update in the repository ?

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