From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@user.it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5 modprobe doesn't handle alias chains?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:58:15 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030317174406.8353D2C0FC@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:35:40 BST." <200303032335.h23NZetq012628@harpo.it.uu.se>
In message <200303032335.h23NZetq012628@harpo.it.uu.se> you write:
> Rusty,
>
> In converting my 2.5 build to make the serial driver a module,
> I discovered that alias chains in modprobe.conf apparently
> don't work. This is with module-init-tools-0.9.9.
>
> I had 'alias char-major-4 serial' and 'alias char-major-5 serial'
> in modprobe.conf, since that's what's built into 2.4 modutils, and
> then I added 'alias serial 8250'. This did not work: opening /dev/ttyS0
> resulted in modprobe complaining 'FATAL: Module serial not found'.
>
> Is this a bug or a design limitation?
Well, it's a documented feature, see modprobe.conf(5). You can use
install commands instead if you really want recursion, or do as you
did and simply resolve the alias by hand.
Hope that helps,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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2003-03-03 23:35 Mikael Pettersson
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