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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:14:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:39:37 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > > > > Follow on to: "Series to add device tree naming to i2c"
> > > > > > Teach module-init-tools about the i2c subsystem.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you please explain what this patch does and why it is needed?
> > > >
> > > > It generates the entries needed for the user space module tools to
> > > > work with the aliases. For example modprobe/depmod. It is a standard
> > > > part of the kernel module system.
> > >
> > > What entries, where? What can you do after applying your patch that you
> > > couldn't do before?
> >
> > The drivers you are testing with don't depend on other drivers.
>
> They do. I'm testing with the lm90 driver, which depends on the hwmon
> driver. Both load automatically when the underlying i2c-parport driver
> instantiate an "adm1032" i2c device.

I don't know exactly what those modules tables are used for. I just
copied what the other subsystems do. Maybe they are used when you make
an initrd to know which drivers to copy into the image.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com