Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753958AbYAMSEY (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:04:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753283AbYAMSEP (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:04:15 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:4257 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753021AbYAMSEO (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:04:14 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QGYk7Le3Bqs62rlqxxv7RSayBpE+03NUuUQICPXtlzJQfQ4YVX9fdR0J0ObesepZ8EThUEp+f6tAkFCRkoteg6r+Ly7nwzWWD3GOrvpXsL09TTfk+z3sBaJocSkfwEuhLa3jrE3tpJEvTGRJq3AvTYf+CwYdYP6z00bCw/gaEfI= Message-ID: <9e4733910801131004i669276e2pde04b195dd10bd90@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:04:13 -0500 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Jean Delvare" Subject: Re: [i2c] [PATCH] update module-init-tools to support the i2c subsystem Cc: i2c@lm-sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080113184337.5d4cd546@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9e4733910712171839h214e0bc3q179266c86e5987b1@mail.gmail.com> <20080113152735.5dca46a1@hyperion.delvare> <9e4733910801130714m1be16826jf240171972324d16@mail.gmail.com> <20080113163543.16e3d26b@hyperion.delvare> <9e4733910801130826l799e4897pe7380ccb973b5fd0@mail.gmail.com> <20080113184337.5d4cd546@hyperion.delvare> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1608 Lines: 36 On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:14:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:39:37 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > > Follow on to: "Series to add device tree naming to i2c" > > > > > > Teach module-init-tools about the i2c subsystem. > > > > > > > > > > Can you please explain what this patch does and why it is needed? > > > > > > > > It generates the entries needed for the user space module tools to > > > > work with the aliases. For example modprobe/depmod. It is a standard > > > > part of the kernel module system. > > > > > > What entries, where? What can you do after applying your patch that you > > > couldn't do before? > > > > The drivers you are testing with don't depend on other drivers. > > They do. I'm testing with the lm90 driver, which depends on the hwmon > driver. Both load automatically when the underlying i2c-parport driver > instantiate an "adm1032" i2c device. I don't know exactly what those modules tables are used for. I just copied what the other subsystems do. Maybe they are used when you make an initrd to know which drivers to copy into the image. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com -- 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/