From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kaos <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.47bk2 + current modutils == broken hotplug
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:17:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113201710.GB7238@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD2B1D5.7020903@pacbell.net>
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:11:01PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> The module-init-tools-0.6.tar.gz utilities (or something
> related -- kbuild changes?) break hotplug since they no
> longer produce the /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.*map
> files as output ... so the hotplug agents don't have the
> pre-built database mapping device info to drivers.
Last I heard, Rusty's still working on this. He's also going to be
changing the format so we don't expose kernel structures to userspace,
which would be a good thing.
In short, he knows this is a requirement, and shouldn't be broken for
long.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-13 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-13 20:11 2.5.47bk2 + current modutils == broken hotplug David Brownell
2002-11-13 20:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-11-13 20:40 ` David Brownell
2002-11-13 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-13 21:07 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 22:45 ` David Brownell
2002-11-13 21:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-13 23:00 ` David Brownell
2002-11-14 3:46 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 8:02 ` David Brownell
2002-11-14 10:01 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 16:19 ` David Brownell
2002-11-14 17:42 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 10:41 ` Gerd Knorr
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