Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2269 mails)

[stenhoj@xxxxxx (Niels Stenhoj)]

Hi Folks!

On friday, I and a yet another SuSE fanatic ran a 14 hour session of kernel 
hacking.

The purpose was to set up a kernel with full support for UDF to allow
for RW of CD's using the 'Direct CD' format.  Initially we estamated that
kernel 2.4.0 coming together with SuSE 7.0 would be the best candidate,
so we ported the configuration file of the default kernel to the source folder
of 2.4.0. The configuration and compilation went well, and it seemed to
load normal. However, the process stopped because kernel 2.4.0 does not
support ReiserFS. Of course, we tried to port the ReiserFS sources from
2.2.16 to 2.4.0, but despite many efforts, we failed to set up adequate
dependencies. 

We also tried to port the UDF sources from 2.4.0 to 2.2.16 only to get
a message saying that UDF needs 2.3 or higher.

So my question is: Is there any tool or standard method of setting up
dependencies to 'alien' code that needs to be included in the kernel
at boot time?

Thanks in advance!

Niels


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