[linux-dvb] Re: Any progress on a RPM DVB driver for Red Hat ?

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

On Monday 10 March 2003 09:54, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 March 2003 19:12, Amen Ra wrote:
> >>Any progress on a RPM driver for Red Hat ?
> >>
> >>An RPM package of the DVB drivers would make it so
> >>much easier to use the driver under Red Hat. Red Hat
> >>8.0 and 8.1 don't have the DVB driver and it is too
> >>hard for most people to install it so they just don't
> >>bother or give up.
> >
> > Lets brainstorm ;)
> >
> > - Not an easy task as the modules will collide with the ones that are the
> > kernel I guess.
>
> this should definitely not happen.
>

Ok thats fine. 

> > - Loading the driver ("make insmod" ;) ) should be done by an initscript
> > and configured by a *.conf file in /etc/
>
> When you copy the lines from the modules.conf sample file in the
> DVB/driver/ directory to into your own /etc/modules.conf the modules
> should get loaded automatically when needed. Maybe an RPM can do this
> automatically.
>

Sure %post can do this if that modules.conf works for all cards. What I had in 
mind was, how to handle an arm crash ? Till now I reloaded the driver to 
reset the arm. Is there a way to reset the arm without it ?

> > - the binary rpm should have the name of the kernel(uname -r) in it.
>
> In theory you have to create seperate RPMs for every kernel(sub)version.
> Even if they are usually binary compatible it's always the safest way to
> compile the driver for every new version.

Yes I know. For mandrake i have an example spec here to do so. Currently I 
have some other things to do, but I will come back when I'm on it .
 
>
> Holger

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