On Monday 18 December 2006 21:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mainly the 3rd party addons should be documented/listed. > Most users don't know what has been added. > I only happen to know these things cause > some time ago i did rebuilds of mandrivas kernel for myself, > so i know most of those additions. > > Mostly it comes down to the point that new users > want to compile things manually, and then i see that the module > they need is already in mandriva kernel.
They don't run 'modinfo <module>' first ? IMHO this is a mistake of upstream module authors, they should always recommend that the user first check whether the module is available (and the version, if that is critical, as in less mature drivers). Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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