Inside DKMS: State, Kbuild, and the Life of an NVIDIA Kernel Module
A systems-level account of what DKMS owns, what Kbuild and the kernel decide, and how initramfs snapshots complicate NVIDIA driver upgrades.
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A systems-level account of what DKMS owns, what Kbuild and the kernel decide, and how initramfs snapshots complicate NVIDIA driver upgrades.
Refactoring becomes avoidance when structural change substitutes for naming the real constraint, making the hard decision, or investigating behavior.