From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261289AbVGYQLQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:11:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261306AbVGYQLQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:11:16 -0400 Received: from animx.eu.org ([216.98.75.249]:21472 "EHLO animx.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261289AbVGYQLP (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:11:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:27:13 -0400 From: Wakko Warner To: Michael Tokarev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stripping in module Message-ID: <20050725162713.GA2021@animx.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Tokarev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <809C13DD6142E74ABE20C65B11A24398020882@www.telos.de> <20050725112622.GA1537@animx.eu.org> <42E4CBAC.6020301@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E4CBAC.6020301@tls.msk.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals