From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: module loading order
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:42:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110511214215.GA22141@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DCAFE8C.90108@gmx.com>
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:24:28PM +0100, Simon Leung wrote:
>
> > Yes, and so is the option module. But you are looking at a wierd device
> > that somehow thinks it is both an option device, and a pl2303 device,
> > which are totally different chipsets.
>
> If I understand modules.dep correctly, it says that both pl2303 depend
> on usbserial.
You mean "both pl2303 and option", then yes.
> So when either is loaded, usbserial will be loaded.
Yes.
> But the problem here is that pl2303 should not be loaded at all as
> it's for USB-serial adapter, not 3G modem. I'm not sure what controls
> that.
The descriptors of the device itself.
What does 'lsusb' show with this device plugged in?
And what kernel version are you using here?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-11 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 16:08 module loading order Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 16:14 ` Greg KH
2011-05-11 21:24 ` Simon Leung
2011-05-11 21:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-12 8:33 ` Simon Leung
2011-05-12 13:48 ` Greg KH
2011-05-12 13:54 ` Simon Leung
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-11 8:00 Simon Leung
2011-05-11 13:41 ` Greg KH
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110511214215.GA22141@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.