Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:35:40 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | 2.5 modprobe doesn't handle alias chains? |
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Rusty,
In converting my 2.5 build to make the serial driver a module, I discovered that alias chains in modprobe.conf apparently don't work. This is with module-init-tools-0.9.9.
I had 'alias char-major-4 serial' and 'alias char-major-5 serial' in modprobe.conf, since that's what's built into 2.4 modutils, and then I added 'alias serial 8250'. This did not work: opening /dev/ttyS0 resulted in modprobe complaining 'FATAL: Module serial not found'.
Is this a bug or a design limitation?
I kludged it by using 'alias char-major-4 8250' instead.
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