From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug cardbus cards.
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:59:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98021168615013@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98021095913110@msgid-missing>
Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:33:42 -0800,
> Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>> I think you need an `alias eth0 3c59x' in modules.conf.
>>
>> I'll try that. Is this something that modutils should
>> be doing?
>
>
> I don't think so. Standard aliases that are generated out of the
> kernel are not a problem. But expecting modutils to select different
> aliases based on which user space package is being used is a problem.
> Policy settings are the user's responsibility. It does not help when
> kernel developers insist on renaming modules without telling anyone,
> modutils will always be out of date compared to kernel changes.
Well, what about having a stub 3c575_cb driver? Also, what would it
take to add a "Standard alias" to the 2.4.0 kernel? This problem,
I agree, is really stupid, arbitrary incompatibility.
Miles
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-23 0:47 Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug cardbus cards Keith Owens
2001-01-23 0:59 ` Miles Lane [this message]
2001-01-23 1:55 ` Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug Andrew Morton
2001-01-23 2:19 ` Andrew Morton
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2001-01-23 0:33 Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug cardbus cards Miles Lane
2001-01-23 0:52 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-23 1:14 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-01-23 3:39 ` David Hinds
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