From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
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 01:14:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98021271917089@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98021018610942@msgid-missing>
Miles Lane (miles@megapathdsl.net) said:
> > The hotplug command is doing the right thing - it's
> > trying to load 3c575_cb.o. But you're using 3c59x.o
> > under 2.4.
> >
> > I think you need an `alias eth0 3c59x' in modules.conf.
>
> I'll try that. Is this something that modutils should
> be doing? I kinda think it is. Basically, we'd need
> aliasing of any pcmcia-cs drivers whose function is now
> served by a new driver in the 2.4.0 kernel tree.
I don't think it's something that should be solved in modutils;
there's no reason it needs to know in modutils itself about
what modules do what with what kernel version; alias.h is
big enough as is. ;)
I would think that if you had working modules.<foo>map support,
it shouldn't be a problem.
Bill
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2001-01-23 3:39 ` David Hinds
2001-01-26 16:44 ` Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) David Brownell
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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
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