Mitigating skew by using the correct tag

[natterangell]

Hi,

I'm in need of the displaylink driver on aurora-dx, and I've spent hours debugging why GA in my custom template refused to build the kmod-evdi.

After some intensive google-fu I finally realized that the kmod-evdi module wouldn't build unless I declared the negativo repo in the containerfile.

With that out the way I kept pulling my hair out not understanding why the kmod-evdi kernel version didn't match the aurora-dx-stable upstream image kernel.

I finally figured out I needed to declare akmods-extra:coreos-stable-40 as the tag for the kernel to match.

With the gts/stable/latest kernels now being offered in different channels it would be better to make this more evident in the README file. There are quite a few tags in the builder not mentioned in the README (are some of these just for testing?)

Would you like a PR for revised instructions?

[m2Giles]

A PR would be helpful.

But yeah, the kernel version as you saw has to match.

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi, @natterangell. I'm Dosu, and I'm helping the akmods team manage their backlog. I'm marking this issue as stale.

Issue Summary:

• You reported difficulties in building the kmod-evdi module for the displaylink driver on aurora-dx.
• The issue is due to missing repository declarations and kernel version mismatches.
• You suggested updating the README with necessary tags like akmods-extra:coreos-stable-40.
• You offered to submit a pull request with updated instructions.
• m2Giles agreed that a pull request would be helpful and stressed the importance of matching kernel versions.

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