Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:39:25 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:05:46 +0100
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> 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.


Module is just a piece of code, or programm if someone may think.
And there no problems when we type
$ ps
and see only "aterm", if someone wants to know what exactly means "aterm",
one can run ps axufw.
And even with the case of lsmod: one can see that scx200 will or will not
 depend on superio, and that will explain everything.
 
> > > 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


	Evgeniy Polyakov

Only failure makes us experts. -- Theo de Raadt
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