[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: "driver" category for kernel modules/drivers

[John Vogel]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:58:14 -0700
King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Admins:
> 
> Currently, SBo stuffs "drivers" into various categories, mostly under
> "System."  I propose SBo creates a new Category "Drivers" to consolidate
> and better organize these SlackBuild Scripts.
> 
> This list may have errors: some are not tagged as drivers
> (nvidia-legacy173-kernel); and some are incorrectly tagged as drivers.
> 
> Search Results for "driver"
> 
> Name                        Category
> -------------------------   ---------
> broadcom-sta                Network
> cups-windows                Misc
> idle3-tools                 System     not a driver
> iscan-proprietary-drivers   Misc
> libdbi-drivers              Libraries
> libsuinput                  Libraries  not a driver
> libva-intel-driver          Libraries
> ndiswrapper-kernel          Network
> ndiswrapper-utils           Network    not a driver
> nvidia-driver               System
> nvidia-kernel               System
> nvidia-legacy173-driver     System
> nvidia-legacy304-driver     System
> nvidia-legacy304-kernel     System
> nvidia-legacy340-driver     System
> nvidia-legacy340-kernel     System
> nvidia-legacy96-driver      System
> nvidia-legacy96-kernel      System
> oss                         Audio
> pcsc-lite                   System     ?
> samsung-mfp-drivers         System
> splix                       System
> usbview                     System     not a driver
> xf86-video-qxl              System
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed
> 

Sounds like a logical separation. I like it.

John