New FC 8 kernel RPMS in updates

Marco Benton marco at xssnet.com
Mon Apr 21 23:16:15 UTC 2008


Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Oliver has pushed a new set of kernel RPMS into the "updates"
> repository on buildsys.zero42.at.
> 
...
> Pertinent to #2 above - the current e100 driver, which gets
> built by default and handles those same NIC chipsets, is having
> problems on Alpha (many "e100_watchdog: transmit timed out" msgs),
> and performance can be severely degraded.
> 
> The eepro100 driver does not exhibit this problem, so a workaround
> is to force use of it rather than e100. One does this by making a new
> entry in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file, like so:
> 
> blacklist e100
> 
... snip ...

wouldn't it be easier to edit the kernel config to not build the e100 
module in the SRPMS?





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