From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modules.pnpmap output support
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:19:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hu153jl7k.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031117060542.726CF2C31E@lists.samba.org>
At Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:46:16 +1100,
Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> In message <s5hekwbjb7c.wl@alsa2.suse.de> you write:
> > Hi Rusty,
>
> Hi Takashi!
>
> > The attached patch makes depmod to output modules.pnpmap file
> > generated from the pnp device table.
> >
> > The output format is not compatible with the old modules.isapnpmap.
> > The new format shows the pnp id string (e.g. CTL0301) while the old
> > format uses the hex numbers. I don't think it's worthy to keep the
> > compatibility for this (since the new one is more intuitive), but it'd
> > be easy to follow the old style.
>
> That seems strange. If you don't worry about backwards compatibility,
> then the new scripts/file2alias.c approach is better, which generates
> aliases for each module (depmod then collects these into
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias for speed).
>
> The tables generated by depmod are purely for backwards compatibility,
> although it does look like they will be required throughout 2.6 at
> this stage.
>
> Does that clarify?
ah, ok, that makes sense.
but still, file2alias (as of test9) doesn't output the entries for pnp
devices...
Takashi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 14:07 modules.pnpmap output support Takashi Iwai
2003-11-17 3:46 ` Rusty Russell
2003-11-17 11:19 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2003-11-18 3:01 ` Rusty Russell
2003-11-17 12:37 "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-11-17 13:34 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-11-17 14:05 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-11-20 4:35 ` Rusty Russell
2003-11-20 9:40 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-11-17 15:07 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2003-11-17 15:37 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-11-20 21:23 ` Adam Belay
2003-11-21 11:44 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-11-23 22:07 ` Adam Belay
2003-11-25 10:29 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-11-18 3:07 ` Rusty Russell
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