Jeff Mahoney schreef:
Oddball wrote:
Jeff Mahoney schreef:
The kernel doesn't look for e.g. a new video card - it goes down the busses, enumerates what's there, and issues events to userspace to load the appropriate drivers for that hardware. The boot process only loads drivers for common hardware for which there isn't any autodiscovery, like cpufreq. If it travels the busses, it should find minipciewifi card, how exactly can it be 'un'-ignored?
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you asking about your original wifi problem? If that's the case, there was nothing you could have done short of rebuilding your own kernel with CONFIG_STAGING=y, CONFIG_EXCLUDE_STAGING_FROM_BUILD=n, and enabling the wifi driver in there. OK that was all i wanted to know here, yes...
That's the change I committed earlier today, so once the KOTD kernels are building again, it will automatically discover it on boot.
Very nice, i look forward to it..
That said, for a truly minimal system like Jan mentioned with JeOS, that's not what you want either. There are core modules that will nearly always be used like TCP/IP, the SCSI layer, etc, but some of the more esoteric devices and protocol could probably be split out into smaller packages that can be uninstalled easily. why not?
Mostly just that there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done. Hopefully the new kernel spec files are easier to work with than they have in the past. If you have an idea of how you'd like it to look, give it a try and post your results here.
-Jeff
I agree, there are too few hours in a day, and sometimes it looks there are less every day.... I will deepen my vieuw into the kernel, and knowing the previous, it will take the time it takes... Looking forward to the steadily improving kernels.. Would you please be so kind and tell me where to best start to quickly practice kernel building? (quick reference manual, whatever needed to do the actual job, machines and diskspace i have..) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.29-rc8-5-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Alpha 0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org