Re: autoloading snd_sun_cs4231?

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From: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:06:50 +0300 (EEST)

> Does the same method provide sbus autoloading? sbus module autoloading 
> seems to be broken currently - neither my owrn nor Debian 2.6.22-1 
> kernels do sbus autoloading and so Debian's initrd does not even load 
> sun_esp and fails to boot. It used to function somehow before (not 
> of_device autoloading) - I do not know how it worked for initrd, but it 
> seemed to use discover for the rest of the modules. discover too has 
> stopped finding sbus modules :(

The mechanism it uses is incredibly simple, it's nothing
more than a shell script that runs "/usr/sbin/prtconv -pv"
and greps for node names, and based upon those node names
it loads the appropriate module.

Perhaps you're not turning on the openprom driver that
prtconf needs to operate.
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