Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:05:46 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage |
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:23:02PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:41:11 +0100 > Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> > > Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:43:36PM +0300 > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100 > > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > > > > It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed that there are > > > > now two modules "scx200" in the kernel... > > > > > > They are almost mutually exlusive(SuperIO contains more advanced), > > > so I do not see any problem here. > > > Only one of them can be loaded in a time. > > > > > > So what does exactly bother you? > > > > > lsmod in bugreports giving unspecific results, for example. > > If you load scx200 from superio subsystem, then obviously you can not > use old i2c/acb modules which require old scx200. > And vice versa. > > One needs to load exactly what he wants.
You did not understand what Jurriaan said:
Even if it was working, "lsmod" would not be able to tell which of the two modules was loaded.
This would cause much headache for many people.
> > Kind regards, > > Jurriaan > > Evgeniy Polyakov
cu Adrian
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