Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 17:43 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >> Le 04/01/2016 17:32, Svante Signell a écrit : > >> Just an idea: Would it be possible to detect the hardware of each computer >> being installed on and after that install the needed modules? Preferably the >> modules should not be located on /usr, currently they are under /lib. >> >> I don't understand the repulsion towards having the modules in >> /usr/lib. What difference does it make? None, unless you want the three >> following conditions: no initramfs, /usr being a mountpoint, some >> drivers and filesystems compiled in the kernel, but missing just the one >> for /usr. You've got to work pretty hard to fulfill these conditions. > > Well, the important part of my question was: "Would it be possible to detect > the > hardware of each computer being installed on and after that install the needed > modules?"
"Somewhat". The kernel will send uevents for everything it detects (or invoke a modprobe/ hotplug program with this information). But 'the hardware' is not static. Eg, I have an USB printer/scanner that's usually turned off. I installed the OS on my current 'workstation' by connecting the disk to the SATA bus of the old one, copying the system over and the compiling a kernel I considered to be capable of booting the new one. Alternatively, one could also just move a disk to a new machine. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
