Bugzilla – Bug 157554
kernel modules (km/kpm) - side effects of the binary-only drivers
Last modified: 2006-04-03 14:51:57 UTC
Jana said: AJ requests this list to be added to the 10.1 Release Notes. Karl, can you poll Matze for the exact list and add it? I don't know whether there will be a special README on the first disc of SLES or SLED, so maybe they would also need this list in the release-notes But they will differ from the 10.1 list, of course. Matze, will you please provide such a list?
I guess, we can recycle this report. The following spnippet now is part of the update info chapter of the SLES Adminguide and I'd like to add something similar to the release notes: Changes with Kernel Modules The following kernel modules are no longer available: • km_fcdsl—AVM Fritz!Card DSL • km_fritzcapi—AVM FRITZ! ISDN Adapters The following kernel module package was changed internally: • km_wlan—Various drivers for wireless LAN cards. The madwifi driver for Atheros WLAN cards from km_wlan was removed. For technical reasons, it was necessary to drop support for Ralink WLAN cards. The following modules were not part of the distribution and will not be added in the future: • ati-fglrx—ATI FireGL Graphics Cards • nvidia-gfx—NVIDIA gfx driver • km_smartlink-softmodem—Smart Link Soft Modem Find additional driver in the kpm packages. For background information, see http://www.suse.de/~agruen/kernel-doc/.
Please remove this paragraph: The following modules were not part of the distribution and will not be added in the future: • ati-fglrx—ATI FireGL Graphics Cards • nvidia-gfx—NVIDIA gfx driver • km_smartlink-softmodem—Smart Link Soft Modem Otherwise ok.
done. ->/work
Not yet okay. It makes no sense to tell users which km_ packages are no longer available; they want to know the module names (*.ko). To get from the km_ package name to the module list, please proceed as follows: - Check into which directories below /usr/src/kernel-modules the mentioned km_* rpms install their sources: rpm -qlp /work/CDs/all/full-10.0-i386/suse/i586/km_fcdsl.rpm - Check in the kernel build log which modules were installed from those directories (or from sub-directories): Search for the last directory component, and for INSTALL /somewhere/something.ko in /work/built/dists/all/10.0-i386/packs-i386/kernel-default/ kernel-default-2.6.13/Logfile.kernel-default.spec For wlan, please check which *.ko files from the ones listed in the old build log are no longer available in the wlan-kmp-default.rpm package from STABLE. Note that madwifi-kmp-*.rpm will be on NLD; it contains some of the wlan modules that were previously part of km_wlan. I don't know what "technical reasons" should mean; can't we come up with a more meaningful reason? Please refer to http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_Module_Packages, which explains what KMPs are. Please don't refer to http://www.suse.de/~agruen/kernel-doc/: that's very technical, and 95% of all users would only get irritated. Thanks.
Ok, makes sense. Thanks for all the details!
Taking a closer look... I remove the ~agruen reference and added the opensuse one. The other details are to be provided by kernel or driver expert. ATM, I do not have the time to dig through kernel sources and package contents files; it would take too much time for me to become familiar with these driver details. No, I do not know the "technical details". Matze/Andreas, please decide what we can do.
Then please at least also remove the misleading references to km_ whatever; customers don't know about those packages, and they most likely don't care. The Ralink issue is explained in bug 149141: old driver no longer works with 2.6.16; new version not yet stable enough; will try to release an update as soon as the new version is stable enough.
OK, can we close this bug than?
I think so. I'll adjust the text now. Assigning to me again.
Andreas, I hope I got you right. This is the version I will commit to the next release notes update: Changes with Kernel Modules =========================== The following kernel modules are no longer available: • AVM Fritz!Card DSL • AVM FRITZ! ISDN Adapters The following kernel module package was changed internally: • Various drivers for wireless LAN cards. The madwifi driver for Atheros WLAN cards was removed. For technical reasons, it was necessary to drop support for Ralink WLAN cards. The old driver no longer works with kernel version 2.6.16 and the new version is not yet stable enough. We intend to release an update as soon as the new version is stable enough. Find additional drivers in the kpm packages. For background information, see http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_Module_Packages.
(In reply to comment #2) > Please remove this paragraph: > > The following modules were not part of the distribution and will not be added > in the future: > > • ati-fglrx—ATI FireGL Graphics Cards > > • nvidia-gfx—NVIDIA gfx driver > > • km_smartlink-softmodem—Smart Link Soft Modem ATI and NVidia drivers were not part of the distribution, but Smartlink WAS. There were two modules, slamr.ko and slusb.ko, which belonged to the 'kernel-default-nongpl' package. So if a mention is made to AVM modules removal, then why isn't there any mention to Smartlink modules? Bug 153112 is also related with this problem.
Andreas, Matze what do you think? Shall I mention Smartlink modules along with AVM modules?
Yes, please also mention Smart Link Soft Modem. Thanks.
ok. submitted to /work.