Re: [PATCH] More MODULE_ALIASes

[Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org>]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> Three more MODULE_ALIASes. Trivial, but useful if people want things
> to "just work" in 2.6.0.
>
> If you drop this I'll just keep collecting them.

BTW, I'm reminding about aliases mentioned by me few weeks ago
(here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.0/1263.html),
which could be built into appropriate modules (here in modprobe.conf
format):

alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias iso9660 isofs
alias block-major-11 sr_mod
alias char-major-21-* sg

Also note that MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR doesn't work up to test11,
because for e.g. /dev/fd0 kernel calls modprobe with block-major-2 (in
drivers/block/genhd.c?), but MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(FLOPPY_MAJOR)
adds "block-major-2-*" alias.
(similar problem with MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR was fixes few releases
 ago by changing requet_module call in fs/chsr_dev.c - in 1.1414.1.23)


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