From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3JD8UD3031396 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:08:31 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j3JD8c4K025255 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:08:38 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:08:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Automating the process of building kernel pci drivers From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <426479D2.1010206@securesystem.info> References: <426479D2.1010206@securesystem.info> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-yoAfJUlVR4qLSDgF0QI0" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:08:20 -0400 Message-Id: <1113916100.9616.146.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: a5c491e9-5b5e-4e8a-8070-dfb75c9412f5 X-Archives-Hash: 983c3561d78e9096612df9d8713847b2 --=-yoAfJUlVR4qLSDgF0QI0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 12:24 +0900, Chris White wrote: > 1) What if the device has no module? > 2) Do we generate it for a specific kernel version for the livecd, or > try multiple ones? > 3) Do arches have any issues? > 4) Is it possible for two modules to hold over the same device and > possibly conflict with each other? > 5) Could certain modules cause other modules to fail? Does a short > rules list need to be created to prevent problematic combinations? > 6) How should we approach the userspace program? Should we simply > extend genkernel or go with something more specialized? 7) What if you bought the device after building your kernel? 8) What if the device is external and not connected? 9) Why are we even bothering with this? --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-yoAfJUlVR4qLSDgF0QI0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCZQLEkT4lNIS36YERAiyhAJ9xkAaSN/AnNZLmO9uac9DKmiNlyQCbBXx2 cU3J7RgTjRK5eNy511qv1bw= =I9JQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-yoAfJUlVR4qLSDgF0QI0-- -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list