On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:24:56 +0800,
> "Peter Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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