Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:43:19 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@axxeo.de>
Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, Christian Borntr?ger <christian@borntraeger.net>,
       Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>,
       linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:48:49AM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Greg KH write:
> > Very nice stuff.  Ok, that's a good reason not to get rid of these
> > files, although they can be generated on the fly from the modules
> > themselves (like depmod does it.)
> 
> Time to resurrect modinfo? ;-)
> Didn't we plan to get rid of that, too?

Not that I know of, modinfo works great for me here :)

> If we like to use information from modules, there should be a scriptable 
> tool to extract this kind of information, otherwise it will be a bitch to 
> maintain those tools.

modinfo works well for me in this manner, it doesn't for you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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