Problems with kernel updates needing non-kernel changes

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Mar 22 19:00:48 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:31 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >> 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
>
> They were? I have this in modprobe.conf and I know I didn't put it
> there:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel index=0

Ugh...  system-config-soundcard seems to be doing so.  And it really
really shouldn't be doing that as it's ultimately way too fragile to
do :-/

Jeremy




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