/boot/kernel.h issues 2007-01-05 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:19 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:38 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:21 -0600, Stanley, Jon wrote:
> > > Unfortuantely, you have to use hp-OpenIPMI for management of the new
> > > iLO2 based systems (360/380 G5).
> > >
> > > I don't have a system handy to test this on, but I've dissected the RPM
> > > mentioned, and it *attempts* to clean up after itself - look in the
> > > hp-OpenIPMI.mk in /opt/hp/hp-OpenIPMI <rant>(which gets copied to just
> > > Makefile in %post - ARRRRGGGGHHHH! Don't vendors understand what RPM is
> > > *for*???)</rant>.
> >
> > also it's generally silly what they do; you can do exactly the same with
> > a few additions to CFLAGS which are just an option to the "make" you're
> > calling ANYWAY.. without having to go through great lengths to destroy
> > the integrity of the existing system..
>
> Very true; I hate ISVs that make kernel modules yet don't know how to
> compile them properly.
to some degree.. if they don't even know how to compile them... do you
trust them to run in kernel space *at all* ? ;)
(arguably most of the time the writer of the module isn't the same
person that makes the rpm, but still)
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