Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261571AbVAXTHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:07:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261572AbVAXTGU (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:06:20 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:23564 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261576AbVAXTFv (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:05:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:05:46 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Jurriaan , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage Message-ID: <20050124190546.GP3515@stusta.de> References: <20050124021516.5d1ee686.akpm@osdl.org> <20050124175449.GK3515@stusta.de> <20050124214336.2c555b53@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> <20050124184111.GA9335@middle.of.nowhere> <20050124222302.6f962097@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050124222302.6f962097@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1686 Lines: 53 On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:23:02PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:41:11 +0100 > Jurriaan wrote: > > > From: Evgeniy Polyakov > > Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:43:36PM +0300 > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100 > > > Adrian Bunk 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/