Dkms will allow you to auto compile upon pc restart and kernel upgrade. But then again, Arch don't use dkms and I still quite new to know the history of why not to use dkms. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:00 AM, wrote:

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1. kernel updates render package obsolete (Mads Michelsen)

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:47:43 +0100 From: Mads Michelsen Subject: [aur-general] kernel updates render package obsolete To: aur-general@archlinux.org Message-ID: <20081117174743.17bb28a6@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

I'm maintaining the module package fsaa1655g (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8281), a job I took over as the package had for all intents and purposes been abandoned.

My problem is that every time the kernel is updated - even the smallest update - the package becomes obsolete. I'm pretty ignorant of these things but I suppose that is how things are for some (a lot? all?) non-kernel-modules. The particular problem with this module is that my laptop depends on it for wireless access (it turns on the wireless radio) and so when the kernel is upgraded and the module isn't immidiately upgraded with it, the laptop is restarted, the result is no wireless - which can make it hard to get the module upgraded for one thing.

So I guess my questions are: 1) Is there some way around the module becoming outdated with each and every kernel update? and if not 2) For myself, I can just keep the source code on my drive and rebuild it whenever this happens - but is there some way of altering the PKGBUILD to do the same? 3) Any other way around the issue apart from quickly updating the package whenever there's a kernel upgrade?

- Mads

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