On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:26:18PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > That is a bit troubling. I definitely want as much
hardware support as
> > possible to be available in Fedora. I am particularly focused on
> > networking, so hopefully we do not move any reasonable wires or wireless
> > drivers out (which is essentially what happened when ssb was moved out).
>
> We pretty much left the network _hardware_ drivers alone. The ssb thing
> was unintentional.
The cnic module seems to require uio. The lack of cnic is causing
the bnx2* drivers.
FWIW, the llc module is causing the bridge module to go to extras.
Applying something like my patch will let you be sloppy with the
mod-extra.list and still avoid these problems.
Agreed. Your patch is now applied. We can work out the depmod or other
enhancements later.
josh