[Feature Request] improve install.sh

[Daenara]

After I just spent an hour watching my pi install those drivers only to notice I forgot to cd into the git directory I thought there might be a few ways to improve the install.sh:

• check the directory before doing all the stuff
• check if the kernel headers are already there (extracting those over the exact same thing is where it spent most time)
• maybe do the same with the kernel (not sure if it pulls stock kernel or does something custom, my ability to read scripts isn't the best)
• add in a way to detect what has already been done (install kernel and so on) and just do what hasn't worked (so you can resume where you were in case of errors)
• add a console switch to force the progress to restart (if the previous was implemented)
• actually end with an error message if important parts of the install failed (I got told to reboot and enjoy my install even though I had like 20 lines of errors above. If that happens in the middle of the install and not at the end it might be missed)
• there were quite a few rmdir messages during the uninstall where it tried to delete stuff but there were files still in there. No idea if that could mess stuff up or not

Nothing I wrote above has any impact on actually getting the driver to work but it would greatly improve usability.

Daenara

[Pillar1989]

#249

[turmary]

hi @Daenara
the improving status in branch rel-v5.5.

• check the directory before doing all the stuff
• check if the kernel headers are already there (extracting those over the exact same thing is where it spent most time)
• maybe do the same with the kernel (not sure if it pulls stock kernel or does something custom, my ability to read scripts isn't the best)
• add in a way to detect what has already been done (install kernel and so on) and just do what hasn't worked (so you can resume where you were in case of errors)
• add a console switch to force the progress to restart (if the previous was implemented)
• actually end with an error message if important parts of the install failed (I got told to reboot and enjoy my install even though I had like 20 lines of errors above. If that happens in the middle of the install and not at the end it might be missed)
• there were quite a few rmdir messages during the uninstall where it tried to delete stuff but there were files still in there. No idea if that could mess stuff up or not