Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Ciro Iriarte" <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Well, a few days ago a opened a ticket on bugzilla about a missing
> module (i8k) in the x86_64 build of the kernel (i'm running 10.2 on a
> Dell Inspiron 6400). People there indicated me that  that module is
> not supported on x86_64. I sent a mail to the kernel module developer
> hoping to have an answer to validate my claim. It turns to be that
> it's 32bit centry, BUT he sent me a patch reported to work. Is it
> possible to include it on Factory (even better if it could be
> backported to 10.2 :)

Please tell the developers to get it into the upstream kernel.  If it
will be in 2.6.21, we will have it in 10.3.

We could add such a patch to our kernel - but having it in the
upstream kernel makes live much easier for everybody, so please push
it that way.

Thanks,
Andreas
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