death to modconf

for those faithful following my heartbreaking drama story of a car and its owner, there is still no progress been made. The weather is getting wetter, and my poor baby is trying to hold the fort against the elements to prevent itself from rusting, and although I fret I have began to come to terms. Still no news about claiming for its repair yet, and still no news about making a statement but I suppose thats just slack police 🙂

A few things happening in gentoo land.
modconf has been removed, excellent. Its been in the tree (same ebuild, only trivial changes) for 2 years. It had come to the decision of keeping it, and bumping it to working or dropping it. After brief discussion, the latter prevailed.

bugs #85410 and #84856 are closed. Anyone having problems with unipatch working on something other than base10, and madwifi not building if you use KBUILD_OUTPUT things are looking up! 🙂

bug #77190 has been closed. Anyone who was setting a LANG/LC_ALL variable which screwed up unipatch should now be working fine without needed to mess with anything.

And, plenty more to come. All in all, I don’t have a great deal to add really. Only thing worth noting is I’m not feeling well and if things get much worse my availablity might become a little awkward.

Stupid French Cars!!

So shortly following the purchase of my new car, I was driving home at a very reasonable speed, when all of a sudden a newly passed driver in a citroen ax came around the blind corner too fast hitting the car in front of me. So, I swerved to not get hit by the spinning AX, and bits of the cars were flying all over my bonet.

I rang 999, done the normal stuff – luckily everyone was completely fine. Anyways, checking the damage to my car and it was nothing worth crying over I left and went home. While at home I saw that it had ripped big chunks out of my paintwork all over my bonet, door panels and bumpers.
After spending a good half an hour on the phone to a police officer dealing with the accident, I think he finally believed me and so I took it to the local station so that they could check it. Now all I need to wait for is something to happen to pay for the damage to be repaired before it starts to rust!

And to add to the annoyance, the only reason I drove away from home in the first place was to pick something up from a shop which rang me to say something I wanted was in, only to find by the time I got there they were mistaken!

So, anyways, Gentoo stuffs.
kernel-2 changes have gone in to better accomodate KV_EXTRA and family.
linux-mod changes have gone into the tree to take over the pcmcia work from pcmcia.eclass, and pcmcia-cs changes will be made soon.

instead of it now working out and patching a load of odd pcmcia sources, it just tarballs up the pcmcia-cs sources at build time, and uses that for the future. Please please please dont delete /usr/src/pcmcia/pcmcia-cs-build-env.tbz2 once these changes go in or you might experience problems 🙂

Aside from that, nothing new to report.

Ex-employers can really suck!

So, all in all this has been a fun weekend. The weather has held out which is good, I have a new car (new Hyundai coupe UK US: works under epiphany!) which I’ve been driving around a lot all week.

I’ve been on the phone every day to Manx Telecom (my ex-employers) recently trying to arrange for my internet access to be reconnected. One of the perks of working there was free ADSL, however for some anomaly it was never added to my line. Therefore, it was ceased and I have had no internet access for almost a week. Apologies to those waiting on me for stuff with Gentoo, but the above explains my lack of activity this past week 🙂

I’ve also been dabbling a lot recently in the new multisync cvs builds, uclinux updates and a couple of other goodies. Hope to push some of it to the blog/tree soon.

On top of this I’m going to commit nicer support within detect_version for the newer kernel scheme, something I’ve wanted to do but with 2005.0 and my lack of net access its had to wait.