Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:57:30AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Alle 14:18, sabato 29 ottobre 2005, hai scritto:
> >> Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > If there is also a proposal that at install time scans through external
> >> > modules to find those needed by the host system I will be happier :-)
> >>
> >> That can be one area where discover2 can work. It has some good and
> >> flexible enough database for it. We only need to finish the transition
> >> from discover1 to it.
> >
> > So debian-installer could add binaries debs (building with m-a could be a pain 
> > at this stage) through discover2 for external modules automagically?
> 
> In not far future would be possible to teach discover2 to
> automatically install the need software to run a specific
> hardware. For example a sane backend for scanner or a specific driver
> for a printer. In this case, wouldn't be harder to add support to
> install available kernel modules when available, right?

We are not using discover2 yet, but discover1, and i thought the way to the
future was to use hotplug only, as ubuntu did ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther