Sandeep_K_Shandilya@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello John
That is what this patch is attempting to do, solve the problem of
hunting for drivers on the net. This patch is changing anaconda so that
it automagically looks for drivers in USB storage embedded inside the
box loads and installs it. Maybe not for the old hardware that you
already are using but for the upcoming servers.
So you have binary-only drivers?
My very favourite rescue disk is Knoppix. Sometimes I have the latest on
hand, sometimes not. I am less concerned about security updates than I
am about my regular distro, so provided the CD to hand boots I'm happy
to use it. I use it for Linux and Windows systems alike - i can't do a
lot to _repair_ a broken Windows system, but it can help with cloning
it, with resizing its filesystems etc.
Debian is very picky about what it allows into its distro, and Knoppix
is based off Debian. Klaus Knopper, who created Knoppix, might not see
value in including DKMS, he has to make some sacrifices to get it all
down to a single CD.
If it doesn't work with your hardware, then I can't use my favourite
rescue CD.
If I'm running a standard RHEL or CentOS or Fedora or Debian or *SUSE
system and I have a problem, I have a well-defined path to follow to
report it and in the fullness of time to get a fix.
As I understand it, if I'm running one of your binary-only drivers, I
don't have any support. The kernel's tainted and, I've been told, the
fact of the driver's being loaded means it could have done bad things.
I recall an incident, many years ago, when RH was bitten by this very
issue, in respect of CDE that RH used to distribute with RHL. RH
couldn't fix CDE and its supplier wouldn't or wouldn't do it in the
timeframe RH required.
I'm not sure that DELL would provide full support for RHEL, or even the
kernel, on one of its servers.
And if you think I'm difficult, go to debian.org and read some of the
discussions about non-free bits in the kernel!
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Cheers
John
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