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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.47bk2 + current modutils == broken hotplug
Date: 14 Nov 2002 10:41:54 GMT
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>  The question is whether to force an /sbin/hotplug change to use the
>  module alias mechanism, or generate the modules.*map files at "make
>  modules_install" time to avoid breakage.  I'm leaning towards #2, but
>  I haven't written it yet (should be simple).

Doing that at modules_install time doesn't work for external drivers
(which are _not_ in the kernel tree) ...

  Gerd

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