[Fedora-packaging] Kernel modules (was: Re: tpctl in extras missing dependancy for kernel-module-thinkpad)

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jun 29 20:11:59 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:19:37PM -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> > > In the case of openafs, that requires some more hackery to figure out if
> > > we're supposed to be giving the options for an smp build.
> > Doesn't the openafs build figure that out automatically from the kernel
> > tree you're pointing it at [1]?  Upstream issue?
> OpenAFS sucks...you have to pass the build different options for UP
> versus SMP.  

Capital Letter Upstream Issue. :)

In their defense, they're trying to maintain software with kernel modules
for a dozen different operating systems.

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