Re: Kernel Configuration changes needed in 2.4.27 series kernel....

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On Monday 12 July 2004 01:49 am, you wrote:
> I've been doing some dinking around with our 2.4 kernel to get the PDC202xx
> controllers working, and while doing so, I've uncovered a few things that
> need changed in our kernel's config and a few patches from MDK that might
> be of internest at the same time for it that they use.
>
> First: To get the PDC202xx (old and new) controllers to work, they cannot
> be built as a module. These must be built into the kernel, since without
> being built-in, they will not allow access to the IDE drives on the
> controller.
>
> IMPROTANT - for some strange reason when the system has it built in, the
> PDC202xx controller will become the first set of IDE controllers according
> to the kernel, making the VIA IDE controller the secondary. This causes the
> harddisks to chow up like this:
>
> PDC20265:   hda - hdd
> VIA Apollo: hde - hdh
>
> This is something that teh installer will need to be aware of to handle the
> install gracefully.
>
> Second: I have found that submount is conpletely unusable under the 2.4
> kernel, generating errors similar to old versions of supermount. I opt for
> it's removal from 2.4.x. After taking a look at the current kernel from
> MDK's cooker, it would seem that they are still using supermount-ng in
> their 2.4.27 kernel without issues. Since it works and submount is
> completely broken, I'm in favour of reverting to it. Their patch is
> attached.
>
> Third: Also, of interest, while browsing the MDK patch set, I noted that
> they have a fully working SGI XFS patch to allow the POSIX ACL's to be
> selected in the config tools for the kernel. This too is attached.
>
> Fourth: I have noted a sever degradation of the alsa drivers in our kernel.
> Where teh advanced mixer controls will no longer show up under any account
> but root. While attempting to see if I could remedy this in the kernel, I
> found that the alsa driver options were completely missing from the
> configuration tools for 2.4.x, please fix this since this is a serious
> development bug that has forced me to endure no sound undre my system at
> this time.

Fifth: NCPFS needs enabled in teh kernel to mount NetWare eDirectory exports.
The options for it all need to be selected except Proprietary File Locks.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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