From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stripping in module
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:27:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050725162713.GA2021@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E4CBAC.6020301@tls.msk.ru>
Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Wakko Warner wrote:
> []
> > I would also be interested in this. For instance the AIC7xxx driver has
> > every PCI id in the module I think in the .modinfo section which is not
> > truely required once depmod has been run. []
>
> The .modinfo section, for example the PCI IDs, IS required for the
> module to function properly. The kernel and the module uses that
> tables to determime which devices to work with, and with which paramteres.
I stripped out the section that had alias= and other vars from aic7xxx and
it still worked. Not all modules worked doing that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-25 6:23 Budde, Marco
2005-07-25 7:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-25 11:26 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-25 11:23 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-07-25 16:27 ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2005-07-25 16:14 Aleksey Gorelov
2005-07-25 17:18 Christopher Allen Wing
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