On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:24:56 +0800, > "Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > >> So are all these vendor ID - which are statically defined inside the >> sky2.ko module, somehow made to go into modules.alias as well? (at >> compilation time, i supposed) > > This is done at compile time by depmod, which extracts these > informations from the .ko files. > ok.....so searching through sky2.ko: 00000000 g O .devinit.rodata 00000460 __mod_pci_device_table I guessed the section "pci_device_table" is the one which depmod will search through to derive the dependencies? Thanks again for your answer :-). -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
