Re: IDE poll test

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hi Rene

Am 17-Jul-02 schriebst Du:

> On 2002.07.17 17:14 Krystian Bac=B3awski wrote:
>> Hi!
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>>> So, concerning the "Did your kernel have module support:" it may be
>> useful to
>>> give a hint how to find out. e.g. "Look at config-2.4.xx-apus and che=
ck
>> for
>>> CONFIG_MODULES=3Dy and COFNIG_KMOD=3Dy" or something similar. Or is
>>> there an easier method to find out
>>> for newbies, especially if they haven't yet installed the modules and
>> are
>>> getting the errors about the missing module dependencies at boot time=
?
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>> Is it so important ??? Kernel hangs up during booting, it doesn't even
>> reach the moment when modules are being loaded.
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> I think yes. I am working on the UW-SCSI driver and I get much better=20
> results if I disable loadable module support in the kernel (not only=20
> compile the scsi-driver static into the kernel). So I think it could be=
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> worthful information.

I have no idea about the importance of this question, I've only been conc=
erned
that it may be hard to find out.

> About the hint how to find out if the kernel has loadable module suppor=
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> I do not know an easy way to find it out (maybe /proc/modules does not=20
> exists?). So, any description how to find it out (a look in the=20
> config-file) is to complicated for newbies.

Well, you're pretty right. But to give a hint is better than nothing.

> On the other hand, does=20
> anybody have the correct config-file for the kernel they use?

That's the other problem. If we advice the user to check for the config f=
ile,
we don't know about the amount of wrong answers we get because of the wro=
ng
config file. This may falsify the statistics.

> That was the=20
> reason I've added the "Don't know" option.

My idea was to bring the "Don't know" answers down to a minimum. But it m=
ay
even be better to have a lot of "Don't know" answers instead of false "Ye=
s" or
"No" answers.

> But it is also complicated for most users to get out the motherboard=20
> revision...

Depends on the hardwarecase ;)

To summarize: I have no idea about what to do about the modules question.=
. Go
as you think may be best!

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Wishes,
Andi