Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: Processed: Escalating #345067 to the technical comittee, as the maintainer asked me to do so, and is unable or unwilling to do his job without this.

[Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 04:01:10 -0800
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:17:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> > > ide-generic is not built on powerpc,
> 
> > ...on official Debian kernels. But other kernels may very well build
> > that module.
> 
> OTOH, other kernels may build the driver in, which would be yet
> another false positive here.

I believe ide-generic being builtin would not cause trouble for yaird,
based on my general understanding of yaird logic and the following note
in /usr/lib/yaird/perl/ModProbe.pm, lines 23-24:

> #  - if we know a module is compiled into the kernel,
> #    don't attempt to load it, and don't complain.


Wether or not building and loading ide-generic on powerpc causes
trouble is another issue. I have not experienced problems doing so on
my own powerpc-based machines in the past, but do not have VIA-based
IDE hardware attached to those, and naturally have not tested all
possible cases.


 - Jonas

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