Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introducing IWLAGN

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

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Okay I resolved the problem. I put iwlagn to blacklist as a little
hack for development so it won't be loaded during boot. While for not
aliases modprobe works even if the modules is in blacklist this is not
the case for aliases.

Thanks  for the help. Now I can release the 3rd patch with rename.
Tomas

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