Re: pcmcia bugs
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
> Brian Mays <brian@debian.org> wrote:
> >> #61882
>
> > I agree with you on this bug, the correct location is
> > "/lib/modules/2.2.14-ide". What is the final decision here? Are we going
> > to have to require ALL kernels of a particular version to conflict with
> > each other!!? (Note that this means that all of my pcmcia-modules-2.2.14
> > packages are going to have to conflict with each other, and I'm NOT
> > looking forward to supporting that!) That seems very stupid to me, and it
> > defeats the whole point of adding kernel flavors to begin with.
>
> As I have said before, the only reason for the existence of the -ide
> package is because people have cards that are not supported by the
> vanilla kernel. So they will only want to use one of those
> packages, not both of them together. This plus the fact that adding
> things to the end of version numbers should be avoided unless it is
> really necessary means that at leasts for the -ide case, it should
> be /lib/modules/2.2.14.
I agree. Moreover, /lib/modules/`uname -r` is where the modules are
looked for by kmod etc so putting it somewhere else would require a
hack on modutils. Yick.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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