Am Sonntag, den 22.08.2004, 15:15 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > The worst part building external kernel-modules is IMHO that building > > external kernel-modules is different on suse, fedora and others. That > > makes it really hard for everyone IMHO. > > actually with the 2.6 kernel it's the same for all of us. Heck, even > with 2.4 was *IF* you had correct makefiles. (but I agree the 2.4 way > needed more hacks and was somewhat unclean. But there is progress... see > 2.6) I don't think so. AFAIK on Suse 9.1 you need to make a make cloneconfig prepare_all (source: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html ) Don't know what is proposed in vanilla ATM. This was the last thing I heard (where you commended arjan) was : [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Improved external module support http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.2/1283.html Is it in now? > > > - now you simple do NOT ship/build any source code rpm! > > > > I like this point *if* we have the kernel-sourcecode package in fedora > > extras / fedora.us. Yes, normally nobody should need it, but I think a > > lot of people like to have it. I plan to archive this if nobody does > > it ;-) > > I rather ship a script in kernel-utils to turn the src.rpm into a full > source. Yes, that could also be done. But I think the fedora-extras solution will be easier for a lot of people. And could be used *if* drivers like the ati fglrx driver currently need parts from the source. [...] > > > but for any module which is not in the precompiled kernel they have to > > > now manualy download the kernel src.rpm (this can't be done trough the > > > nightly yum or other update process!) and compile it. > > > > Normally nearly everything is included. Yes there are exceptions. But in > > most cases then there are problems with the drivers. > > yep. firewire is off (mostly), and that is because it oopses during boot > even if you don't have hardware. I'd love for that to get fixed so that > I can enable it again. Other than that... just look at the config. Just > about everything is on. I don't need firewire, but I was hit by the temporary DVB-Driver remove during 2.4.6-1.435 or so. But It worked for me(tm). *Maybe* a better solution than disabling would be to build these drivers an put them online somewhere in an "unsupported kernel-modules-RPM". This has advantages: - people could try if the bug is still there - people that are not hit my the bug or use a workaround could use it without to much circumstances As always, just my 2 cent. -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
