On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 04:05:47 +0900, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ironically, if the network card driver is not working, there's no way to > google around for information on what modules to compile in for various > drivers. [...] I always google for the PCI IDs which lspci -n shows. > The basic idea would be to have a userspace program that would be run > before the kernel compile process and check the device identification > string (using /proc?) and match it up against the correct module. [...] We already do have such a program, it's called /sbin/hotplug. The missing piece for your scheme, however, is that the maps which govern hotplug are generated from C files. Therefore, the code is patched to add new IDs. AFAIK, Greg Kroah worked on a more configurable way to match drivers with devices within the hotplug framework. You might want to talk to Greg about this. By the way, Greg is a Gentoo developer as well, but pleas keep this to a common forum. I'm sure folks from other distros are be interested. Jaa ne, -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/