Re: RCONFLICTS

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:42:50PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:50 -0800, Erik Hovland wrote:
> > I want to put in RCONFLICTS in the h3900 kernel builds for g-ether and
> > usbnet. Since they don't really play nice.
> >
> > Anyone have any advice as to the best way to do that, or if I ought to
> > use another approach?
>
> I'm not convinced that RCONFLICTS is a good idea. Merely having the two
> modules present on your disk doesn't cause any problems, does it? It
> doesn't seem beyond the realms of possibility that someone might want to
> use both of these modules on a single machine at different times.

Thanks for the feedback.

According to the bug that tracks this issue usbnet.o does not rmmod
cleanly such that it is impossible to load g_ether.o w/out first
rebooting the handheld. This lead me to believe that having a package
conflict might help mitigate this issue.

But I do see your point. At the least I should change it so that usbnet
is no longer loaded on pxa based handhelds and that g_ether is the
default. Which I will do. I'll just cross my fingers on what users end
up doing with usbnet once they get a handheld in their hand and decide
they don't want g_ether.

E

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