* Re: Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug cardbus cards.
@ 2001-01-23 0:47 Keith Owens
2001-01-23 0:59 ` Miles Lane
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From: Keith Owens @ 2001-01-23 0:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
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modutils will always be out of date compared to kernel changes.
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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
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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From: Miles Lane @ 2001-01-23 0:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
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 modutils will always be out of date compared to kernel changes.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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* Re: Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug
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
@ 2001-01-23 1:55 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-23 2:19 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2001-01-23 1:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
Miles Lane wrote:
>
> On further exploration:
>
> Adding "alias eth0 3c59x" or "alias /dev/eth0 3c59x"
> or "alias 3c575_cb 3c59x" and then running "depmod -ae"
> before inserting the 3c575 card did not help.
Uh. OK, cardmgr is trying to load 3c575_cb.o
No easy fix for this which is back-compatible with
a 2.2 reboot apart from `ln 3c59x.o 3c575_cb.o'.
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* Re: Need new modutils aliases for 2.4.0? (Was) Re: Cannot hotplug
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
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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From: Andrew Morton @ 2001-01-23 2:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
Miles Lane wrote:
>
> 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.
pcmcia-cs's config files hold the mapping between
PCI device IDs and the names of the drivers which care
for those devices. In /etc/pcmcia/config.O.
This is kinda obsoleted by modules.*map.
If your '/sbin/hotplug pci' script is using
modules.pcimap then eveything should "just work",
without using cardmgr. I hope.
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