Bug 24376
| Summary: | module name conversion | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Component: | kudzu | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | notting |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | Florence RC-1 | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-01-25 03:54:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Tim Waugh
2001-01-19 17:40:34 UTC
Re-assigning to component "kernel". This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1 There was talk of doing this in the kernel package's %post, but that doesn't seem right. You can install a 2.4 kernel and still want to fall back to a 2.2 kernel, so perhaps it should be a boot-time thing. There are some nifty modutils directives for saying things like 'try 3c59x, and if that doesn't work, try 3c90x'. I wonder if we should make use of them? Like this: probe eth0 3c59x 3c90x How about if the kernel spec requires sed and this gets put in %post: cnf=/etc/modules.conf [ -f $cnf ] || cnf=/etc/conf.modules sed -e 's/^alias eth0 3c90x$/probe eth0 3c59x 3c90x/' $cnf > $cnf.tmp mv -f $cnf.tmp $cnf We already require a recent enough modutils I think. I'd say this is a job for the hardware detection program. It should find the card and see the correct module isn't assigned to it. Bill, do you agree? It makes sense to me.. No. We explicitly do not change mappings for users on the premise that if the user picked a particular driver, they did it for a reason. Note that we're not necessarily talking about outright _changing_ the alias, but rather adding a name, like: before: alias eth0 3c90x after : probe eth0 3c90x 3c59x Eww. That would mean as soon as the installer writes a modules.conf, kudzu would change it? There's something rather ugly about that. It also means that you have to parse this other format to determine what devices are configured. Moreover, the kernel package already did this for the 2.2 kernel, I don't see why it can't do it for 2.4. In any case, we're now shipping the 3c90x driver in the kernel. We should bring forward the 2.2 stuff to the 2.4 kernel, but it is not critical unless the aacraid driver actually makes it in, since that's currently the only use of it... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25550 *** |