Hi Ben

Excerpts from Ben Pfaff's message of 2011-08-15 00:04:46 +0200:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 07:08:35PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > Please add support for automatically building the modules with DKMS. The
> > virtualbox-source package is an example of a kernel module source
> > package which provides DKMS and module-assistant support.
> 
> Thank you for the example.  I didn't know of any package that supported
> both, before now.

I just saw that I was wrong. The virtualbox source package provides
two separate packages. One for m-a, the other for DKMS. But this could
still be used as an example for how to do it. 

> 
> DKMS support is something that we want upstream, we just haven't made
> time to do it yet.

Great to hear.

Gaudenz

> 
> In the meantime, the Ubuntu version of the packaging does have DKMS
> support, so you could use that.  I haven't looked at it yet so I don't
> have an idea whether it is suitable to just include directly in Debian.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.
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