What do you mean with "old times"? :) That's basically still what happens. Fedora automates this nicely with akmods, which automatically rebuilds these source

What do you mean with "old times"? :) That's basically still what happens. Fedora automates this nicely with akmods, which automatically rebuilds these source only modules and installs them when you update the kernel. Has been working smoothly for a while, but it is fundamentally the same thing still.