Re: [PATCH] Module alias and table support

Keith Owens
2002-11-28T04:38:01Z

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:22:25 -0800,
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> 2.5.49 contains exports device ID tables again. I think the
>existing depmod would work, except for some problem that Rusty found
>where it tries to use the kernel module interface (it really shouldn't
>care what operating system you're running as it should just read and
>write files). Fix that depmod bug(?)

Not a bug. depmod on its own reads the current kernel symbols. depmod
-F map reads the symbosl from the mapfile and does not use the current
kernel at all.