Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:03:13 +0300 |
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On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 07:33 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote: > parse_mtd_partitions takes a list of partition types; if the driver > isn't loaded, it attempts to load it, and then it grabs the partition > parser. For redboot, the module name is "redboot.ko", while the parser > name is "RedBoot". Since modprobe is case-sensitive, attempting to > modprobe "RedBoot" will never work. I suspect the embedded systems that > make use of redboot just always manually loaded redboot prior to loading > their specific nand chip drivers (or statically compiled it in). > > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> > Cc: stable@kernel.org > --- > drivers/mtd/redboot.c | 3 +++ > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > v2: instead of renaming the module, use a module_alias. Duh. Thanks, > Artem Bityutskiy!
Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!
-- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy
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