Re: [Devil-linux-develop] useful patches to a 2.4.21 kernel

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Diego Torres wrote:
> this patches could be useful (at least, there are *very* useful for me)
> 
> http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/index.html
> 
>  http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/archive/i2c-2.8.0.tar.gz
>  patches for i2c/lmsensors. don't work for kernels 2.5/2.6. it gives lots of drivers for hardware sensors (cpu temp, cpu fan speed, etc...) available on today motherboards.
> 
>  http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/archive/lm_sensors-2.8.0.tar.gz
>  userspace applications for installing & configuring the sensors.

I would vote for including those.

> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/
>  as always, getting the latest pcmcia-cs drivers is a must. don't even think in enabling pcmcia in-kernel support.
>  
> http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>  of course, if someone wants to do serious raid across several disks/partitions, he will probably use the device mapper patches + lvm2 patches to kernel.
> 
>  ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools/LVM2.0-latest.tgz
>  user space tools
>  
>  ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-latest.tgz
>  kernel patches for 2.4.21.

Should we switch to LVM2 ? How stable is it?

> http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi
>  useful with newer or modern pcs, mainly because 2.4.21 is obsolete in acpi terms...

True. Add some point we have to support it, the question is do we want 
to do it in the next release.

cya
   Heiko