On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:14:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:39:37 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > > Follow on to: "Series to add device tree naming to i2c" > > > > > > Teach module-init-tools about the i2c subsystem. > > > > > > > > > > Can you please explain what this patch does and why it is needed? > > > > > > > > It generates the entries needed for the user space module tools to > > > > work with the aliases. For example modprobe/depmod. It is a standard > > > > part of the kernel module system. > > > > > > What entries, where? What can you do after applying your patch that you > > > couldn't do before? > > > > The drivers you are testing with don't depend on other drivers. > > They do. I'm testing with the lm90 driver, which depends on the hwmon > driver. Both load automatically when the underlying i2c-parport driver > instantiate an "adm1032" i2c device.
I don't know exactly what those modules tables are used for. I just copied what the other subsystems do. Maybe they are used when you make an initrd to know which drivers to copy into the image. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
