Dave Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:45:38PM -0700, Topher Fischer wrote:
> Is there a standard process for getting things added to Fedora's kernel
> package. In particular, I'm interested in the hdaps modules (IBM's Hard
> Drive Active Protection System). I believe it has been in the stable
> kernel since 2.6.14.
>
> Or, am I just thinking about this wrong. Do uncommon modules not go in
> the kernel package? Do they usually get packaged separately?
It's been in the Fedora kernel since it got merged upstream.
$ modinfo hdaps
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6debug/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko
license: GPL v2
description: IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver
author: Robert Love
srcversion: 1C5A2654C3D15545ECF46D0
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6debug SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS
parm: invert:invert data along each axis (bool)
Dave
I checked a couple fc5 machines that I have access to, and it's in their
kernel packages, but I don't see it in either 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 or
2.6.19-1.2895.fc6. Is there anybody that can verify this?
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