Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:19:59 +0100 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: modules.pnpmap output support |
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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...
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