Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 7 Nov 2001 13:32:35 CST | From | Eric Bresie <> | Subject | Probing for Kernel Configuration |
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I just recently installed a new version of Redhat 7.2 and had problems with some of my devices not being supported as part of the stock installation...this got me thinking...I noticed that when I did a lspci that a majority of my hardware was identified, but there was no guarantee that the module to support that hardware is present in the kernel or configured..
Is it possible prior to kernel configuration to perhaps have something like a make newconfig or make probe-config to probe the system and give a guess as to what modules are needed for a given system...I guess you could think of it kind of as a plug-n-play for kernel configuration.
I could see how this might require some mapping of hardware probed information to kernel config options which would then enable them (and if appropriate set to current settings). And also might require some default utilities like the pci utilities, the usb utilities, scsi, etc...
Any comments?
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