On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 07:03 -0500, Martin Sivak wrote: > there is a tarball of patches against individual files attached to this > email. This set of patches adds new driverdisc format support as well as > the automatic driverdisc pickup (known as dlabel in RHEL5) to the current > master branch. Thanks Martin. I am happy to see this. I hope that version 3 is the last major change that we need to make to driver disk support ;) > - during DD loading > - depmod and modprobe are set to prefer the /tmp/DD location (note: we added support for additional search paths to do this, so depmod is temporarily told to include and prefer an external location, then it isn't. This lets us load everything via regular udev too, which is also known as doing it the right way). > - during Yum install phase > - the code lists all modules loaded into kernel and tried to find > those residing in DD directory (/tmp/DD) > - modules which were loaded from that directory are translated to > package names (file dependencies) and added to Yum transaction We talked about that earlier - is this already the modinfo stuff? Cool. Do you have an initrd image anywhere that Alex He or someone else in QE can get at it? I can build one, but I'm a little short on time at the moment so that would speed up a quick test run. Jon. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
