Hi Roy.

28-Aug-03 04:06:28, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jasen Betts


 RJT> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB>> Hi Roy.

 JB>> 25-Aug-03 04:34:24, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jasen Betts

 RJT>> Makefiles are something I haven't had to deal with yet,  or at
 RJT>> least composing them.  I've looked in a couple to see what some
 RJT>> of the options are,  and that's about it so far

 JB>> yeah, it's like  C is three different languages,  C itself, the
 JB>> pre processor (# commands, macro0s) , and the makefile.

 RJT> I never had that much trouble with the preprocessor...

 RJT> Mostly that's just text substitution.

yeah, and simple if/else logic, mostly.

stuff like #() can be interesting...

 RJT> Linux,  on the other hand...

 RJT> the HOWTO files this specific driver (aha1542 or aha154x) is
 RJT> specified as you do need it,   or probing will fail.  Do I need
 RJT> it if I'm explicit on the command line?  Who knows

if it says autoprobe it probably will work without the bios if you're
eplicit, if it says probing it may need to bios to see the card at all.
go with the the documentation for that module... atleeast until you get it
working.

 RJT> So I go toward the source,  thinking maybe there's an answer in
 RJT> there.  And I can't figure it out,  have *no* idea what they're
 RJT> doing with most of that code..

 RJT> It almost _is_ like a different language!

:) I did a little messing with kernel drivers way back (kernel 0.95) to get
it to detect my internal modem... and yeah by all appearances it's got more
complex now.

 -=> Bye <=-

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