Re: Patch to support drivers compiled into the kernel

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:54 -0500, Bill C Riemers wrote:
> Currently, NetworkManager ignores any network driver that does not have
> a loadable module associated with it.   This is a problem, when the
> network driver has been compiled directly into the kernel.  This is
> typically done for coLinux, and other environments where a loadable
> module network driver is not supported.
> 
> The following patch marks the driver for such devices as "<kernel>", so
> that NetworkManager will not ignore them.   However, NetworkManager will
> still ignore network devices which do not have a driver associated with
> them and is not built-in as part of the kernel.
> 
> Note: I created this patch on Fedora 10, against the 0.7.0-1 version.  
> Please let me know if I need to do a git checkout and rebuild this patch
> against the current code base.

Hmm, I'd like to see what sysfs looks like for these devices; do you
have a /sys/class/net/ethX/device directory for that device, and if so,
what's in it?

Dan