On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:58:30AM +0200, jdd wrote:
Peter Flodin wrote:
If what they are proposing takes off, it will be really good. The end point if I have understood right, is going to the computer store and there are green lizards on the hardware boxes, saying it has a driver for SUSE.
"If updated drivers matching the kernel version of the security update are available, YaST will fetch and install them alongside the security update, else it will interact with the user and guide them on how to proceed. "
don't seems very different from the preceding situation.
just Novell offers a collaborative effort (good), but will the harware vendors do?
it seems the kernel structure have some problem with hardware drivers
The whole thing is mostly infrastructure... You see it in 10.1 already: - support for external installation sources was a key feature for this - the kernel provides enhanced checksum for various parts rpm -q --provides kernel-default .... kernel(mm) = 3d6b445a058e7d3f .... - The kernel modules require those checksums rpm -q --requires wlan-kmp-default ... kernel(mm) = 3d6b445a058e7d3f ... - YaST/Zmd can check those requires / provides and fetch fixed / changed kernel modules automatically when fetching the new kernels. Ciao, Marcus