Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:46:25 +0100
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       i2c@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [i2c] [PATCH] update module-init-tools to support the i2c
 subsystem
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:38:28 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 6:50 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > I am under the impression that modules.*map are the old way to get
> > automatic driver loading and aliases are the new way to do the same.
> > But maybe that's just me.
> 
> Right, nothing on recent systems is using the map files. This patch
> should not be needed.
> The plan is to deprecate the creation of these files in depmod.

OK, great. Thanks for the info, Kay!

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Jean Delvare
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