From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:59:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug cardbus cards. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:33:42 -0800, > Miles Lane 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 modutils will always be out of date compared to kernel changes.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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel