[driver-updates] [RFC] Automatic driver package resolution

[Jon Masters]

Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:

> 	Proposal (short-term):  Add the attached find-provides.modinfo
> script to the SOURCES of RPM DKMS or KMP packages and override the
> builtin RPM %{__find_provides} script

Obviously, we still need to handle providing the regular dependencies, 
such as the additional symbols a module is providing, used by others.

> 	I am looking for feedback. I believe that this method is
> conceptually very simple, and yet it should be robust enough to handle
> the situations I can envision. I would like to produce something that
> will work for Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, and SUSE, at the least. I
> believe that this concept can also be extended to work with the
> Debian-based distributions.

I am looking to do something at a higher level also and will soon begin 
work on a tool to help discover new sources of RPMs/yum repos. So we can 
work together in that respect - but I'm looking to also add a GUI layer 
that will allow the user to interact upon discovery of new hardware.

Jon.