Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic

Greg KH
2003-03-20T19:09:05Z

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