On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:29 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> >>> <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> >>>>> This series of patches renames iwl4965 driver to iwlagn driver
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe MODULE_ALIAS with the old name would be a good idea?
> >>>
> >>> I wasn't aware of this one I'll give it a try. Thanks
> >>
> >> It doesn't work much
> >> if I rename the module name to iwlagn.ko and just add
> >> MODULE_ALIAS("iwl4965") or alias line in /etc/modprobe.conf. I've
> >> checked modules.alias it's updated.
> >> Still modprobe iwl4965 cannot catch it.
> >> So it's still will create mess when switching between to version of the kernel.
> >
> > thats odd ... just tested it with a webcam driver (m5602 added
> > MODULE_ALIAS("bisoncam") and it worked)
> > does modinfo iwlagn list the alias?
>
> yes it does show the alias but modprobe fails with Module iwl4965 not
> found. I did strace it's really reads the modules.alias but found
> nothing
> Hope I'm wasting my time on some stupid typo...just cannot find it :)
You did re-run depmod, right? Just a quick thought.
Dan
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