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Bug#345584: discover1-data: pci.lst lists outdate driver



On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:46:29AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Eric Van Buggenhaut (ericvb@debian.org):
> > Package: discover1-data
> > Version: 1.2005.11.25
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > discover tries to load an outdated module for device 8086:2448:
> > 
> > atto:/usr/src/linux[0]# /etc/init.d/discover start
> > Detecting hardware...Discovered hardware for these modules: i810_rng 
> > e1000 ipw2200 piix i810_audio usb_uhci ehci_hcd
> > * Skipping unavailable/built-in i810_rng module.
> > 
> > i810_rng isn't part of linux kernel as of version 2.6. It should be 
> > replaced by hw_random.
> > 
> > Attached is a patch
> 
> Hmm, I suspect that the change should indeed be only made in
> pci-26.lst, assuming I properly understand the purpose of this file
> (overriding the content of pci.lst for 2.6 kernels)
> 
> Otherwise, we will also load hw_random with 2.4 kernels....

I wasn't aware of the functionality of pci-26.lst, but yes it looks 
like it overrides pci.lst for kernel 2.6

i810_rng existed in 2.4 but was dropped in 2.4.23 in favor of 
hw_random:

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.23


I don't know how you'd reflect that in discover ?

Regards,

-- 
Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
ericvb@debian.org



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