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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MODULE_ALIAS for IRDA dongles 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:12:50 +0400."
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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:05:32 +1000
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In message <E19unMQ-0001RE-00.arvidjaar-mail-ru@f22.mail.ru> you write:
> 
> > Rather than hardcoded names in modprobe, modules can offer their own
> > aliases (which are overridden by config files).
> 
> that's cool :)
> 
> what config files do you mean - Kconfig or modprobe.conf (or equiv.)?

modprobe.conf.  modutils's modprobe actually has all these built in,
which is pretty bad if you want to change on or introduce a new one.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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