Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.31: parport_lowlevel | Date | Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:50:33 +0000 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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Steve Dodd wrote: >On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:11:35PM -0500, Tim Waugh wrote: > >> It's a bit of both. The parport_lowlevel alias shouldn't really be used >> any more, and instead the following line in modules.conf ought to take its >> place: >> >> post-install parport /sbin/modprobe -k parport_pc >> >> (adjust for your architecture). In 2.4, though, the intention is that the >> alias will still work but will trigger a warning message. > >I've always viewed the post-install thing as a bit of a hack -- I admit I >don't have any concrete reasons for thinking this, though. Is there no way >of making things work under the existing scheme? Or perhaps adding features >to the dependency analysis done by depmod and friends?
Not really. It's an equivalent problem to automatically loading the driver for your particular SCSI card -- the kernel doesn't know what sort of parallel ports you have, and neither do depmod or modprobe. The old scheme was even more of a hack, in my opinion.
We could add some magic to modutils to let you say "pretend that module X depends on module Y". This would possibly be a tiny bit neater than using post-install but I don't think it really buys anything.
p.
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