Re: search-win-drivers

[Pierre B. <pie...@ar...>]

Allan Lyons wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> A bit ago, there was a post on the list about the search-win-drivers
> tool.  Seems to work well for PCI devices for me.  So, I made a patch
> that is intended to integrate this tool directly in unattended.

I will be really honoured if my pool perl code is integrated into 
Unattended project.
It will also make me more comfortable to work on it since some code 
(mainly entries in install.pl) is already present in upstream source.

I will try to review your patches if it can help.

> There are a couple of tiny changes to what was posted on the list
> before.  
> 1) the default driver files path was changed to
> /z/win_drivers to match the pattern of /z/os, etc.  

Fine for me.

> 2) The example
> config.pl file bits now work the same as the other bits in config.pl
> that read the properties from the config file.  

> 3) the old lines from
> nt5x-install that copied the driver files the old way are not
> removed.  This should work out so that the driver files can be done
> either way since search-win-drivers currently only works for those 
> items that are shown by lspci.  Also, it might be desirable to force
> a certain set of drivers to be copied to the installed machine since
> some hardware is not present during the installation.

Yes, It was in my mind when I wrote the code: difficult to automagically 
decide to add drivers for a networked printer for instance, but the 
manual choose of drivers do it so fine ;-)

> This patch is missing out the documentation file.  It really should be
> there, but I wasn't sure where to put it.

In source code of the web site ?

Regards,

Pierre Bourgin