Re: lspci -k is broken with depmod from kmod since it doesn't generate modules.pcimap anymore

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The depmod from kmod no longer generates file modules.pcimap, and lspci -k
>>> relies on that as noted at:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462982
>>>
>>> null pciutils-3.1.10 # grep -r modules.*map *
>>> ls-kernel.c:      sprintf(name, "/lib/modules/%s/modules.pcimap",
>>> uts.release);
>>> lspci.c:char *opt_pcimap;                       /* Override path to Linux
>>> modules.pcimap */
>>> lspci.c:"-p <file>\tLook up kernel modules in a given file instead of
>>> default modules.pcimap\n"
>>> lspci.man:.RI /lib/modules/ kernel_version /modules.pcimap.
>>
>> I don't think this is a kernel problem, and I don't know where to
>> point you.  Maybe Lucas or Kay will know?
>
> I don't see why modules.{pci,usb}map are needed here. Could we change
> lspci to do the equivalent to the following instead (either by calling
> modprobe or using libkmod)?
>
> for i in /sys/bus/pci/*/modalias;
> do
>     modprobe -R  `cat $i`
> done
>
> Kay, am I missing anything?

Yes, that needs to be converted to use modaliases, if that feature is
desired in lspci. The information is available in /sys and modprobe
can be used to resolve that to module names. The old hotplug maps
files are gone.

Kay
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