[elrepo-devel] a few comment about elrepo's packages

[Farkas Levente]

On 08/29/2009 12:01 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 29/08/2009, Phil Perry<phil at elrepo.org>  wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>   2. Blacklisting
>>
>>   We provide a standardised mechanism within kmodtool for blacklisting
>>   modules where needed. Alan would be able to give you an example of a
>>   modules that requires this, but I believe some of the network controller
>>   driver modules do.
>
> When either the kmod-r8101 or the kmod-r8168 package is installed, the
> Red Hat distributed 8169 module is blacklisted.
>
> The requirement, to blacklist any existing 8169 module before a 8101
> or 8168 module is loaded, is specified in the Realtek documentation.

i see and understand it (anyway in the 5.3's r8169 module is working 
properly with all 8101 and 8168 card too, we test them all since we've 
got many problem with them).

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