Re: Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package

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Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:02 -0700, Topher Fischer wrote:
>   
>> Dave Jones wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:45:38PM -0700, Topher Fischer wrote:
>>>  > Is there a standard process for getting things added to Fedora's kernel
>>>  > package.  In particular, I'm interested in the hdaps modules (IBM's Hard
>>>  > Drive Active Protection System).  I believe it has been in the stable
>>>  > kernel since 2.6.14.
>>>  > 
>>>  > Or, am I just thinking about this wrong.  Do uncommon modules not go in
>>>  > the kernel package?  Do they usually get packaged separately?
>>>
>>> It's been in the Fedora kernel since it got merged upstream.
>>>
>>> $ modinfo hdaps
>>> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6debug/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko
>>> license:        GPL v2
>>> description:    IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver
>>> author:         Robert Love
>>> srcversion:     1C5A2654C3D15545ECF46D0
>>> depends:        
>>> vermagic:       2.6.19-1.2895.fc6debug SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS 
>>> parm:           invert:invert data along each axis (bool)
>>>
>>>
>>> 		Dave
>>>   
>>>       
>> I checked a couple fc5 machines that I have access to, and it's in their
>> kernel packages, but I don't see it in either 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 or
>> 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.  Is there anybody that can verify this?
>>     
>
> You mean aside from the output which Dave provided and you quoted?
> Sure...
>
>  sudo /sbin/modinfo hdaps
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko
> license:        GPL v2
> description:    IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver
> author:         Robert Love
> srcversion:     1C5A2654C3D15545ECF46D0
> depends:        
> vermagic:       2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM
> 4KSTACKS 
> parm:           invert:invert data along each axis (bool)
>
> josh
>
>   
I'm assuming that kernel packages I listed, the debug kernel that Dave
listed, and your xen kernel are separate packages and might be
different.  Am I making a bad assumption?  I was hoping somebody using
the same kernel package that I am could verify.

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