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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:07:42 +0200
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> What do you mean, exactly, by "needed data"?

in /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable:
PCI id and driver name:

0xXXXX 0xXXXX "drivername"

(id can be obtained using /sbin/lspci)

in /usr/share/system-config-network/module-info
(sorry, it was called redhat-config-network before)

drivername
	eth
	"symbolic name"
	[eventually some options here]


(in both files there is a description at the top
explaining meaning of fields)

> And, just for my curiosity: why this type of card (Marvell Yukon 88E8036)
> was not included into the kernel, making our life so much easier?

Because upstream provider (Red Hat) did not include it

see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ASSIGN_TO_PM&bug_status=INVESTIGATE&bug_status=SPEC&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=QA_READY&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=PROD_READY&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEEDINFO_REPORTER&bug_status=NEEDINFO_PM&bug_status=NEEDINFO_ENG&bug_status=PASSES_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=marvell&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=


(RH does not want to add drivers which are not part of
standard kernel.org kernels)

Jarek

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