Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introducing IWLAGN

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tomas Winkler 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.

Weird, it certainly worked for thinkpad-acpi when I added a
MODULE_ALIAS("ibm_acpi") to it, sometime ago.  Might be userspace breakage.
Note that I did rename everything in the filesystem to thinkpad_acpi.*, and
the only ibm_acpi left was the one in MODULE_ALIAS.

> If someone have more insight into this networks scripting  I will be greatfull

I am curious as to why it failed, as well.

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