On Thursday 07 September 2006 05:37, Lincoln Dale wrote: > >> from looking at the resulting /lib/modules/2.6.18-rc5ltd1/modules.dep, > >> i can see that no modules seem to think they have a dependency on > >> mt352. same for dst. > > > > yep, thats right.. dvb_attach does the dependencies at runtime. > > hmm, ok. that's where the twisty maze of > symbol_request/try_then_request_module/request_module happens & i'm not > sure i follow the logic. > > from what i can tell, dvb_attach just calls symbol_request which calls > try_then_request_module which in turn calls request_module which forces a > modprobe. > > but - as far as i can tell, modprobe will be called to install mt352_attach > - which obviously isn't the same thing as mt352. > maybe this is an area where the age of my module-init-tools is showing. > (see below). Pretty much thats it yeah. I've just downgraded my system to module-init-tools 3.1, and now dvb_attach fails as yours does, so it needs 3.2 at least... I'll add a comment to the Kconfig description about it. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
