[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Wed Mar 20 21:27:56 CET 2013


On 03/20/2013 04:22 PM, AL13N wrote:
> not really, it just means that in the kernel - are mapped to _; modprobe
> tools handle both cases, just modinfo reports the filename which can
> include '-', but it can still handle both.
>
> lspci and most tools just report it as it's really named (depending on
> filename). modules.dep and modules.descr, etc... has the name as it is as
> well, meaning there can be '-' in the name.
>
> i just see this workaround being effective to handle lstdetect, which
> somehow forces all of it being lowercase...
>
> i don't know how much of lstdetect is hardcoded and how much of it is
> generated, but imho the cleanest way would be to fix lstdetect, so that it
> gives the proper module names...
>
> i've been looking at a way to fix the module list window for choosing, but
> the problem isn't as simple as i thought, since insmod looks at
> filenames... which is another workaround.
>
> @thierry: i donno what you think of it, but imo:
> A) fixing lstdetect would be the cleanest way (maybe not the simplest)
> B) perhaps in the comparing i can workaround this, but the compare code will
> not be as simple as it should...
> forgot to mention option C:
>
> C) using kmod in stage1
>
> but option C might not be as easy and will increase the stage1 size; and
> raises the question if stage2 is actually still needed then...?
>

Where does lstdetect live ?


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