Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Tue Jan 30 23:52:41 UTC 2007
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:26:56PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > Nnngh.. This driver doesn't have export anything useful like PCI IDs to
> > make autoloading easy. Its init routine does checking of DMI tables
> > to make it only load on specific laptops. (Which is actually quite
> > sensible).
> >
> > Short of adding a script to call dmidecode to modprobe if necessary,
> > I can't think of a clean way of doing this.
> > Perhaps just making it built-in instead of modular is the best option,
> > at least for now in FC6 and previous.
>
> Can't we add modaliases for DMI data, and have the kernel export that?
Sure. We could. Needs someone to write the bits for module-init-tools
to parse them based on the dmi of the running system too though.
Dave
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