Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:40:51 -0800 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.47bk2 + current modutils == broken hotplug |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:11:01PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > >>The module-init-tools-0.6.tar.gz utilities (or something >>related -- kbuild changes?) break hotplug since they no >>longer produce the /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.*map >>files as output ... so the hotplug agents don't have the >>pre-built database mapping device info to drivers. > > > Last I heard, Rusty's still working on this. He's also going to be > changing the format so we don't expose kernel structures to userspace, > which would be a good thing.
So long as the _information_ in those structures stays available, good. And it'd be handy if the text format for that information didn't change; how it's stored in object modules doesn't matter.
> In short, he knows this is a requirement, and shouldn't be broken for > long.
Good, that's important.
- Dave
> thanks, > > greg k-h >
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