Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introducing IWLAGN

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
>>> <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>>>>> This series of patches renames iwl4965 driver to iwlagn driver
>>>>
>>>> Maybe MODULE_ALIAS with the old name would be a good idea?
>>>
>>> I wasn't aware of this one I'll give it a try. Thanks
>>
>> It doesn't work much
>> if I rename the module name to iwlagn.ko and just add
>> MODULE_ALIAS("iwl4965")  or alias line in  /etc/modprobe.conf.  I've
>> checked modules.alias it's updated.
>> Still modprobe iwl4965 cannot catch it.
>> So it's still will create mess when switching between to version of the kernel.
>
> thats odd ...  just tested it with a webcam driver (m5602 added
> MODULE_ALIAS("bisoncam") and it worked)
> does modinfo iwlagn list the alias?

yes it does show the alias but modprobe fails with Module iwl4965 not
found. I did strace it's really reads the modules.alias but found
nothing
Hope I'm wasting my time on some stupid typo...just cannot find it :)

Tomas

> And modprobe.conf should just work (modules.alias is not involved here).