Problems with kernel updates needing non-kernel changes

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:22 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >> 2) some modules may now work that were broken, but they need
> >>    new options, like snd-hda-intel which now works on my acer
> >>    notebook if "probe_mask=1" is added to the module options.
> > 
> > This is just a case of broken drivers.  Having to manually
> > (modprobe.conf counts :) specify a module option to make a driver work
> > means that the driver is broken -- these things _have_ to be
> > auto-detected.  Punting it to the user just isn't practical or
> > reasonable.
> > 
> But don't we do that now? Doesn't Anaconda know about options needed
> for certain hardware and put them in modprobe.conf at install time?

Nope!  We list the module name and that's in.  Any module options that
end up there were specified manually (and through an excruciatingly
painful UI) by the user

Jeremy