Previously Yann Dirson wrote: > It does not seem that we have currently any conventions regarding the > packaging of kernel modules. I just tried the new alsadriver from > slink, and, for the same reason I could not use the packaged joystick > driver, this one too is useless to me. Can you try recompiling the source package and use that? And what kernel version are you using? (own compile, kernel version, etc.) > 2) These packages only provide compiled modules for some special > kernel version. Eg, alsa install its modules for 2.0.33; joystick > used to do it for 1 version I don't remember, and after a bug report, > finally included the driver for 2 kernel versions, which even did not > solve my problem, for the above-mentionned reason. This is always a horny problem, which is inherrent to changing kernel interface. I've compiled the ALSA-packages on my own 2.0.33 kernel (somewhat patched), but it should work on other 2.0.33 kernels AFAIK. > kernel-package, which seem to be the tool to build a kernel the Right > Way on a Debian system, provides a framework to also build the > relevant modules from /usr/src/modules/, which can IMHO be used to > solve these problems. I have no idea how flexibable kernel-package is with respect to other modules, or how the interface works. If there is a general interface I would be happy to incorporate it in the alsa-packages. > I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source > form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/. And packaged compiled for the standard kernel-image packages, so we can use them on the bootdisks if wanted. > * The ultra, ibcs, ftape drivers also use the $(uname -r) string in > the package name, but do not provide a source package for > recompilation; most of them provide support for only one kernel > version. Probably the same thing is true for ntfs and smbfs(?). Some other packages (autofs comes to mind) rely on kernel support but don't include the modules themselves. > Note that I had the idea of packaging alsa myself, but I wanted to > discuss these issues first... I guess you're a little too late :) BTW: if anyone has any comments on the configure-script, please let me know. I nobody has any complaints I will sent it upstream. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
Attachment:
pgpgVNZ_oVGkF.pgp
Description: PGP signature