Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) driver disk images missing modules.alias

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:07:35PM -0800, Kirsher, Jeffrey T wrote:
>    After building driver disk images for the e1000 driver on RHEL 5, the disk
>    images are not being recognized as valid driver disk images because the
>    file modules.alias is missing from the disk image.
> 
>    This may be related to Bugzilla entry 195899.
> 
>    The driver disk format changed after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.  The
>    pcitable file is no longer used, and a modules.alias file is required. 
>    But you must have both on the driver disk image to have the driver disk
>    image loaded correctly during an install.

I worked on this a while back, but haven't had a chance to test it.
If someone wants to test, I'll post a test release.  Here's what I've
changed so far:

* Mon Feb 5 2007 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>
- patch from http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=27985 assigns new
  modprobe.conf alias ordinals starting at zero.

* Fri Jan 12 2006 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> 2.0.13.1
- properly create driver disks for Fedora Core 6 and RHEL5
- make .iso, .tar, and floppy .img driver disks for Red Hat and SuSE
- set CLEAN properly even if MAKE[] isn't set.
- fix install.sh buglet installing the manpage


In addition, I need to solve two more real problems before posting a
2.0.14:

* Support making RHEL5 Kernel Module Packages.  This hopefully
  involves just adding a new .spec file template, but I need to try
  this out.

* Dealing with the weak-modules symlinks that now exist, rather than
  just ignoring them and hoping nothing breaks. :-)

Would love patches for either of these two...

Thanks,
Matt

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