From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264501AbUEaCDR (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 22:03:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264505AbUEaCDR (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 22:03:17 -0400 Received: from ums.usu.ru ([194.226.236.116]:19145 "EHLO ums.usu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264501AbUEaCDM (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 22:03:12 -0400 Message-ID: <40BA92A8.8040405@ums.usu.ru> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:04:24 +0600 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040121 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Aliases are broken with ieee1394 modules X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This problem can be reproduced on a 2.6.6 kernel if you compile e.g. video1394 as a module. The source line in drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c that is a problem: MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(IEEE1394_MAJOR, IEEE1394_MINOR_BLOCK_VIDEO1394 * 16); The bad result is that in /lib/modules/2.6.6/modules.alias the following line appears: alias char-major-171-1 * 16 video1394 I use gcc 3.3.2, if that matters. Similar problem exists with other ieee1394 modules. -- Alexander E. Patrakov Please CC: me, I am not subscribed