Re: [PATCH] Module alias and table support

[David Brownell]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <[e-mail]> you write:
> 
>>One of the points being that the breakage comes from changing the
>>format supported by modutils.  Restoring current functionality should
>>IMO be high on the agenda .... USB has worked poorly in normal .configs
>>for a while now, because of this.
> 
> 
> Absolutely.  I sent the patch to put the USB etc. tables back in
> (merged in .48 IIRC).

Hmm, with 2.5.50 and module-init-tools 0.8a two "modules.*map" files
are created -- but they're empty.  That's with the latest 2.5 modutils

   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/

So that's not quite working yet.  I should clarify that this hasn't
been the only stumbling block for usb in recent kernels ... looks
as if some of the others (like "re-plugging" issues seemingly in
driver model code) may be gone, but this modutils-based regression
is particularly visible.

- Dave