Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package
Jon Masters
jcm at redhat.com
Tue Jan 30 21:46:18 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:36 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Nnngh.. This driver doesn't have export anything useful like PCI IDs to
> make autoloading easy. Its init routine does checking of DMI tables
> to make it only load on specific laptops. (Which is actually quite
> sensible).
> Short of adding a script to call dmidecode to modprobe if necessary,
> I can't think of a clean way of doing this.
> Perhaps just making it built-in instead of modular is the best option,
> at least for now in FC6 and previous.
Perhaps a new advisory MODULE_ tag might be useful? Then we can just
have depmod pick up the dependency according to its configuration?
Jon.
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