Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introducing IWLAGN

[drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>]

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