Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Jan 29 22:07:12 UTC 2007
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
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