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From: xp newbie <xp_newbie@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I know whether a specific driver being used?
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:03:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061105170318.68879.qmail@web38405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <653402b90611050147x5af94b50s46a5f107f29031b@mail.gmail.com>

--- Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This mailing list is about kernel development, this
> is not the right
> place to ask that. Anyway, 3rd party kernels,
> patches, drivers... are
> not covered here.
> 

I appologize for sending to the wrong mailing list.
Could you please refer me to the correct
newsgroup/forum/mailinglist?

Please note that I have already tried
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ but the folks seem to be
confused like me (regarding this particular issue).

More specifically, there is confusion between the
following statement:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/kernel-patch-2.4-fasttraks150

And the fact that my system shows the following:

~> lsmod | grep promise
sata_promise           12516  8
libata                 83440  1 sata_promise
scsi_mod              145960  6
sr_mod,sbp2,sg,sd_mod,sata_promise,libata

Do you know what the best place to ask such question?

Thanks!
Alex

P.S. I didn't browse menuconfig, because I am not
there yet. It's like the chicken-and-the-egg
situation: I am using Ubuntu which conceptually
exempts me from the need to compile kernel modules and
thus menuconfig is not even installed by default.
Since (thanks to Arjan's reply) I am pretty sure now
that the driver is included in the distribution, I
hope that no compilation is needed.

P.S.2 If I discover something that IMHO points to a
bug in the kernel, where do I post it?



 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-05 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-05  3:30 xp newbie
2006-11-05  9:47 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-11-05 17:03   ` xp newbie [this message]
2006-11-05 20:35     ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-11-05 10:16 ` Arjan van de Ven

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