On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:11:38PM +0200, David ROBERT wrote: > Now, what about kernel updates by the debian > Securiy Team ? If I'm not wrong, the official > 2.4 woody kernel is 2.4.18-1 and contains old > drivers (megaraid v1.18). > And when a kernel exploit is discovered, the > security team upgrade the woody 2.4.18-1 kernel, > not the one shipped with the kveton installer :-)
That's one thing that DKMS is designed to solve. It lets you update a single driver rather that the whole kernel. When a new kernel is released, you run 'dkms build -m megaraid2 -v 2.10.1 -k 2.4.18-1' and similar 'dkms install' *before* you reboot into the new kernel. (Of course, assuming you left megaraid2 as a module, not built-in, in which case you'd have to rebuild the whole kernel yes.) Info on DKMS is at http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
