Re: [PATCH] Module alias and table support

David Brownell
2002-11-28T06:34:44Z

Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <3DE53EF6.4080303@pacbell.net> you write:
>
>>One of the points being that the breakage comes from changing the
>>format supported by modutils. Restoring current functionality should
>>IMO be high on the agenda .... USB has worked poorly in normal .configs
>>for a while now, because of this.
>
>
> Absolutely. I sent the patch to put the USB etc. tables back in
> (merged in .48 IIRC).

Hmm, with 2.5.50 and module-init-tools 0.8a two "modules.*map" files
are created -- but they're empty. That's with the latest 2.5 modutils

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/

So that's not quite working yet. I should clarify that this hasn't
been the only stumbling block for usb in recent kernels ... looks
as if some of the others (like "re-plugging" issues seemingly in
driver model code) may be gone, but this modutils-based regression
is particularly visible.

- Dave