Driver disks for FC6

ravianand ravi.anand at qlogic.com
Tue Oct 24 22:48:15 UTC 2006


>On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:34:13PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > Is there a driver disk for FC6 example anywhere?
> > The driver disk layout changed a few revisions ago and I had a lot of
> > trouble building one for FC5.  Now that FC6 has come around I'd like
> > to avoid pulling my hair out again.
> > 
> > I need to make a disk for the Arcea driver, arcmsr, which has finally
> > gone into the upstream kernel (as of 2.6.19-pre1). Hopefully FC6 will
> > upgrade to a kernel containing this driver soon, but to get it
> > installed, I'll need to make a disk.  It looks like compiling the
> > driver outside of the tree against the kernel in FC6 shouldn't be
> > hard... but I'm worried about figuring out the driver disk layout all
> > over again. ... (well that and finding a working floppy disk drive..
> > ugh)
> 
> DKMS mkdriverdisk doesn't work?
> 
Does DKMS looks for pcitable or it has been updated to package module.alias ?

Ravi




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