| Summary: | x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.11 should test all kernel features in one shot, and not one by one | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP <dhp_gentoo> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Luca Barbato <lu_zero> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | enrico.tagliavini, x11 |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 10.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
>So, I will have to rebuild the kernel and reboot for every single missing
feature ?
no, it does not check the running kernel. It only checks the kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux.
Also, stop using evil drivers!
(In reply to comment #1) > Also, stop using evil drivers! As soon as one the 3 free driver works. ati-drivers-10.10 now checks all kernel features at once before failing :) |
>>> Emerging (2 of 2) x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.11 [...] * ati-drivers-9.11 requires the magic SysRq keys in the kernel. * Please enable it: * CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y [...] ok, I will rebuild my kernel, and reboot if you really want me to. 20mn later: uranus ~ # emerge -va x11-drivers/ati-drivers [...] * ati-drivers-9.11 requires MSI in the kernel. * Please enable it: * CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y o_O could not say this 20mn ago ? So, I will have to rebuild the kernel and reboot for every single missing feature ? maybe 10 ? 100 times ? - ouf no, the ebuild contains only 9 conditional sections ... so people having mid range machine where recompile/reboot takes 30mn will only loose a maximum of 4h30 ... No, i think Gentoo can be more clever, and avoid me rebuilding my kernel and rebooting 20 times just for a single X driver. I really think the ebuild can do all tests in one shot, and then, report in the same report all missing features.