From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>,
Jeff Garzik <garzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:20:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320192020.GB3315@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9590000.1048176717@[10.10.2.4]>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:58AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > 2.4.9 of course has the newstyle pci interface! And actual hotplug
> > PCI support also is in all today singnificant 2.4.9 forks (RH..).
> >
> > There's even some shim to emulate the pci_driver style interface on
> > 2.2.
> >
> > Anyway, this table has another use, it's used by userland ools like
> > installers for selecting the right driver for a given pci device. So
> > even if it seems unused from kernelspace it has a use.
>
> Are they kmem diving? Or parsing source code?
They are looking at the modules.pcimap files which are generated from
depmod, which pull it from the object files.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-20 7:50 [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-20 15:47 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-03-20 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-20 16:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-20 19:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-20 19:13 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-20 19:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-20 19:30 ` Greg KH
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2003-03-20 15:17 Matthew Wilcox
2003-03-20 15:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-20 15:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-03-20 16:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
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