Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750934AbVLBJBW (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 04:01:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751762AbVLBJBV (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 04:01:21 -0500 Received: from populous.netsplit.com ([62.49.129.34]:10627 "EHLO mailgate.netsplit.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750934AbVLBJBV (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 04:01:21 -0500 Subject: Re: Two module-init- From: Scott James Remnant To: Rusty Russell Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH , linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, vojtech@suse.cz In-Reply-To: <1133482376.4094.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1133359773.2779.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1133482376.4094.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Mvs0HsEo+jeCopFFc8gv" Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:01:14 +0000 Message-Id: <1133514074.20712.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1674 Lines: 50 --=-Mvs0HsEo+jeCopFFc8gv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 11:12 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 14:09 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Hi Rusty, > >=20 > > Attached are two patches to module-init-tools from Ubuntu. > >=20 > > The first (input_table_size) is a catch-up with 2.6.15, it's adding an > > extra field to the input_device_id struct; m-u-t needs updating to be > > able to read the modules correctly. >=20 > Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Your patch will break previous > kernels, which have a smaller structure. I've had the discussion years > ago with the input people on using module aliases, and it's not entirely > trivial. I will prepare another patch, however. >=20 Are the modules.*map files intended to be deprecated entirely in favour of aliases? The problem this patch fixed was that the parser couldn't read the tables, so produced invalid output for the modules (ie. an empty modules.inputmap). Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-Mvs0HsEo+jeCopFFc8gv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDkA1aSnQiFMl4yK4RAh+oAJ4tE9BMCnm2HdusAAIy/GFAl7ZOIACfVcmT XjN6dLaYHzZPVVXZwC2JiR0= =MpJH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Mvs0HsEo+jeCopFFc8gv-- - 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/