* Tara L Andrews [Tue, 8 May 2001 04:40:45 -0400]:
7) The default configuration of the 3c90x ethernet module generates the following warning message on boot: insmod: Warning: /lib/modules/2.2.18/net/3c90x.o parameter switchdelay has max < min! Not a big deal, but it looks bad.
Bug in the source code of that module. There where a few more in various modules. I fixed them all. They were all results of either sloppy coding or sloppy maintenance.
to install generic RPMs without having to move around rcN symlinks.
Well, beware of one caveat. If you examine one of the scripts in /etc/init.d, you'll see that they now have LSB conforming headers which allows /sbin/insserv to automatically create and delete appropriate symlinks in the runlevel directories (see 'man insserv' for more details). No generic RPM I've encountered so far has init scripts that conform to this but instead install the script and the symlinks. The next time insserv is called (all our packages that add init scripts do so in the post install script), those symlinks will get zero as priority (e.g. S0xxxxx) and thus will be started or stopped at the wrong time. As distributions get closer to the LSB spec (including ours), points like this will (hopefully) vanish. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390