Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package

[Jarod Wilson]

Topher Fischer wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:09 -0700, Topher Fischer wrote:
>>   
>>>   
>>> I'm assuming that kernel packages I listed, the debug kernel that Dave
>>> listed, and your xen kernel are separate packages and might be
>>> different.  Am I making a bad assumption?  I was hoping somebody using
>>> the same kernel package that I am could verify.
>>>     
>> They are all based off the same source.  Here's a stock kernel package:
>>
>> [jwboyer at vader ~]$ sudo /sbin/modinfo hdaps
>> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko
>> license:        GPL v2
>> description:    IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver
>> author:         Robert Love
>> srcversion:     1C5A2654C3D15545ECF46D0
>> depends:        
>> vermagic:       2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS 
>> parm:           invert:invert data along each axis (bool)
>>
>> josh
>>
>>   
> Thank you for clearing that up.  I'm still confused why I don't have it
> on my system.  I don't think it's interesting enough for anybody else to
> worry about, but then again, I don't really have a good idea about what
> constitutes "interesting."  Here's what I see:
> 
> [root at virgil javert42]# uname -r
> 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
> [root at virgil javert42]# modinfo hdaps
> modinfo: could not find module hdaps
> 
> I also get nothing when I grep my kernel package for hdaps:
> 
> [root at virgil javert42]# rpm -ql kernel | grep hdaps
> 
> Again, thanks for the input.  Thomas also answered a separate question
> that I had.

Just a guess, but maybe you have i586 kernels installed instead of i686?

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common to check on that...

--jarod