Re: 2.4 vs 2.6

[David Ford <david+hb@blue-labs.org>]

Partial comments below

Anssi Saari wrote:

>>  -- modules don't autoload for some reason (though I'm sure that could
>>     be solved),
>>    
>>
>
>I've had this too, with autofs4 and 3c59x. After patching lirc into the
>kernel, the only real issue is with the console. I found a patch for radeonfb,
>but didn't get anywhere with it.
>
>The rest of my problems is userland stuff:
>
>- Murasaki (a hotplug agent) doesn't react when USB things are plugged in
>  
>

You need to update your hotplug installation.  Turn on debugging in your 
hotplug scripts and copy the appropriate object ID numbers into the 
usb.usermap file.

>- swapon -a takes two minutes to complete for some reason
>  
>

Try recreating your swapon partition/file?  Turning on a gig of swap 
here happens pretty quick.

>- rpc.lockd doesn't start, it says lockdsvc: Function not implemented. I don't
>  
>

Update/rebuild your rpc/nfs tools.

>  know if I really need this anyway, nfs seems to work fine
>- zsh doesn't complete make targets like menuconfig
>- I'd also like to point out that cdrecord isn't sufficient for my 
>  CD writing needs, I need cdrdao too and it doesn't seem to support
>  direct access to ATAPI drives. 
>  
>

I haven't used zsh or cdrdao so I can't comment on them.   I don't use 
the above modules, but all the other modules on my system (numerous) do 
autoload just fine.  NFS is a big PITA for me for other reasons but the 
services do start.

My systems are of the Gentoo flavor.

David