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May 30, 2003
  ChangeBlog: devlabel 0.38.07

Devlabel 0.38.07 is available here.

* Added an ugly hack for weird hotpluggable hardware. Specifically, things like the "Pen Drive USB Flash Hard Drive" require an initial ioctl ping before Linux can do anything with them. Because of this, when the hotplug script called `devlabel restart`, devlabel was unable to yet see the device and would not create its symlink. Now, devlabel detects if it has been called by a hotplug agent, and if so, it issues a `devlabel status >/dev/null` right off the bat to act as this initial ping. Then, when the rest of the scripts get around to creating symlinks, everything works fine since the ping has occurred.

* Stopped using the readlink command since I didn't want a dependancy on tetex. Instead I wrote my own simple function which accomplishes the same thing.

By Gary at 04:11 PM in Linux | Comments (0)  
  ChangeBlog: DKMS 0.30.17

DKMS 0.30.17 is available here.

* Added SuSE/United Linux kernel preparation support (Many Thanks to Fred Treasure - fwtreas () us ! ibm ! com). I have only tested this on SLES 8, but from what it looks like, this should prepare your UnitedLinux kernel for building a module regardless of which kernel you are currently running. SuSE has a different mkinitrd command so if it detects this, and REMAKE_INITRD is set in your dkms.conf, it tells you to manually fix your initrd. For Red Hat, it does all the mkinitrd work for you. If you have feedback on how to best accomplish this for SuSE/UL, please let me know.

* Added the --directive option. This allows you to specify dkms.conf directives on the command line. You can use the --directive option multiple times on the same command line to specify multiple additional cli directives. Also, if you plan to use to specify the make command during a build, you must use the MAKE= directive and not the MAKE_<kernel-regexp> directives.

* Added an internal readlink subroutine for determining the location of symlinks. I did not want to add a dependency on tetex so this seemed the better approach.

* Added a mkdir -p $LOCATION during dkms installs so that your built modules will get placed in the $LOCATION directory regardless if it existed beforehand or not.

By Gary at 11:27 AM in Linux | Comments (0)  
 
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