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Matthew Gillen wrote: > jbk wrote: >> Is the recognition of a particular piece of USB hardware dependent on >> the kernel or the hal and/or hwdata definitions? The reason I ask is >> that I am considering downloading the F8 source for hal and the hwdata >> and compiling them on F7 for my current kernel version. Has anyone >> done this or do you think I'm asking for trouble? > > It's really hard to say. It used to be that everything that a driver > needed was in the kernel-space. Some things have been migrating to > user-space though, and device-specific variations/configurations for, > say, the general usb-storage driver, might very well be one of those > things. > > The only thing that might bite you is if the hwdata depends on a driver > feature that wasn't in the F7 kernel version. I don't follow the > development of that stuff closely enough to tell you what the odds of > that are. However, you could avoid the issue completely by grabbing the > F8 kernel src.rpm and rebuilding it on your F7 box. Or, even easier, > try to just install the F8 kernel. If there aren't any RPM complaints, > then it should work fine. > > HTH, > Matt >
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