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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Josh Hansen <joshhansen@byu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ease of hardware configuration
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:38:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011029203842.A17967@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01KA2VPVO4QI9JEBL9@EMAIL1.BYU.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <01KA2VPVO4QI9JEBL9@EMAIL1.BYU.EDU>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:27:34PM -0600, Josh Hansen wrote:
> 	Now here comes the radical part (ok, so all of this is somewhat radical): the 
> configuration utility connects to a server such as linuxdevicedrivers.org or 
> some other slick domain name and downloads the appropriate kernel module 
> binaries for the hardware based on kernel version number and architecture 
> (example: nVidia GeForce module for kernel 2.4.13 on i386, or USB Scanner 
> module for kernel 2.4.4 on PowerPC). Once the module is obtained, it is 
> loaded into the kernel (with explicit IO/IRQ parameters for older hardware if 
> necessary).
> 	Once the module is loaded, the utility quits.

Please check out the linux-hotplug package:
	http://linux-hotplug.sf.net/

It does most of what you are talking about right now.  And if it's
missing anything that you want, feel free to contribute :) 

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-30  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-29 23:27 Ease of hardware configuration Josh Hansen
2001-10-30  2:27 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-30  9:19   ` Alan Cox
2001-10-30  4:38 ` Greg KH [this message]

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