On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:05 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 12:54 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
- mkinitrd may need changing, e.g. the raid4, raid5 and raid6 modules were combined into raid456 a while ago, breaking mkinitrd completely on raid machines.
There are a pile of other userspace packages that also commonly need updates. alsa stuff, pcmcia, kudzu, udev/hal (less these days), ...
Oh don't count on that, I've got some plans to make udev/hal break a bit more often...joke.
- some modules may now work that were broken, but they need new options, like snd-hda-intel which now works on my acer notebook if "probe_mask=1" is added to the module options.
This is just a case of broken drivers. Having to manually (modprobe.conf counts :) specify a module option to make a driver work means that the driver is broken -- these things _have_ to be auto-detected. Punting it to the user just isn't practical or reasonable.
Indeed. And options that are removed *must* be supported for a while. We can't have modules that loaded previously now failing just because the maintainer decided to remove a previously valid option without warning. This needs strong upstream coercion on the part of those taking patches.
Jon.