From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
Linux-Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.0-test11 BK: sg and scanner modules not auto-loaded?
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:10:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031219181039.GI3017@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031219031034.B28F62C0FA@lists.samba.org>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:03:57AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Similar considerations apply to scanner:
> > alias char-major-180-48 scanner
>
> Where did this alias come from? Of course, scanner.c could put in
> such an alias, but is it really constant? If so, by all means add a
> MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV() line in scanner.c. Otherwise, leave it to the
> hotplug code.
Please just leave it up to the hotplug code to load such drivers as
these. Also watch out, if you enable CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS then the
usb scanner driver will NOT start at minor number 48, but will be
dynamically created.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-19 19:06 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20031218091404.4b2f743b.akpm@osdl.org>
2003-12-19 0:03 ` Fw: 2.6.0-test11 BK: sg and scanner modules not auto-loaded? Rusty Russell
2003-12-19 18:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-20 3:04 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-21 0:49 ` Greg KH
2003-12-21 1:25 ` Matthias Andree
2003-12-21 12:37 ` Duncan Sands
2003-12-21 12:44 ` Matthias Andree
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