Notification of ABI breaking updates

[Jeff Schroeder]

>
>  >Some third parties want to provide modules compiled against our stable
>  release kernels.  To make this process more streamlined, I'm wondering
>  if some sort of announcement could be made when ABI breaking updates are
>  afoot (like e.g. when they're uploaded to -proposed or to the security
>  buildd) or when they actually land (in case of embargoed uploads which
>  we - obviously - can't announce ahead of time)?
>
>  >If you have better ideas, please shout.
>
>  Good idea.
>
>  In any case one would create *generic* drivers for as much as possible hardware (i.e. generic monitor, generic keyboard, generic WiFi .... ) and so on. Customized drivers could be based on this generic drivers (and, in any case, the user could use a hardware although there is no customized driver in Linux).
>
>  Regards
>

Why not integrate dkms and have the various 3rd parties use that?
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/

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