Re: Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:26:56PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > Dave Jones (davej 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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