Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-08-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:22:16PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Bill Nottingham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Here you go; sorts them into two piles (networking and block), and expands > > the symbol list to catch some of the missing modules such as ahci and > > some of the wireless drivers

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bill Nottingham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Here you go; sorts them into two piles (networking and block), and expands > the symbol list to catch some of the missing modules such as ahci and > some of the wireless drivers. ... committed. Bill ___ Fedo

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bill Nottingham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I mean, I guess I can just do manual twiddling to rule out things that > > aren't under drivers/ata with the livecd. I'm not _that_ tied to having > > the two separated out if that's the real kicker here > > OK. I'll tweak the stuff in the spec and s

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeremy Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Depends on how many copies of the qlogic driver there are ;-) RHEL live CDs? What's that? (Actually, I lied - drivers/block + drivers/scsi is 1.3M compressed.) > I mean, I guess I can just do manual twiddling to rule out things that > aren't under drivers

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jeremy Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > If > > > it's done at runtime, you can handle whatever kernel you happen to get, > > > even if it's not one of ours. > > > > There are plenty of constraints we have around kernel configuration.

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeremy Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > If > > it's done at runtime, you can handle whatever kernel you happen to get, > > even if it's not one of ours. > > There are plenty of constraints we have around kernel configuration. > Asking for a file to be shipped with the kernel which tells us a li

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:43 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jeremy Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Actually, the more I think about it... is this really appropriate for all > > > upstream m-i-t users? Especially since it will probably be a never-ending > > > task of adjusting the symbol list

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeremy Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Actually, the more I think about it... is this really appropriate for all > > upstream m-i-t users? Especially since it will probably be a never-ending > > task of adjusting the symbol list to find the proper modules. > > When davej and I talked about it,

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:28 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jon Masters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 22:13 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > > Frankly, I think this sort of computation should either a) be done in > > > modutils, so > > > that it's upstream for any kern

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:28 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jon Masters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 22:13 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > > Frankly, I think this sort of computation should either a) be done in > > > modutils, so > > > that it's upstream for any kern

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Masters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 22:13 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Frankly, I think this sort of computation should either a) be done in > > modutils, so > > that it's upstream for any kernel b) just be done in the places that need > > this info > > (anacond

Re: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 22:13 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Frankly, I think this sort of computation should either a) be done in > modutils, so > that it's upstream for any kernel b) just be done in the places that need > this info > (anaconda, livecd-tools). They can even just share the implem

/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeremy Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 11:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > The arcmsr driver is in-kernel but you can't install to a > > > system using it for the main disk controller: > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?

2007-07-26 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 11:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > The arcmsr driver is in-kernel but you can't install to a > > system using it for the main disk controller: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249647 > > > > Ditto for

Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > The arcmsr driver is in-kernel but you can't install to a > system using it for the main disk controller: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249647 > > Ditto for the uli526x network driver, network installs are > impossible on system

Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?

2007-07-26 Thread Chuck Ebbert
The arcmsr driver is in-kernel but you can't install to a system using it for the main disk controller: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249647 Ditto for the uli526x network driver, network installs are impossible on systems using that: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/sh