From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stripping in module
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:23:24 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E4CBAC.6020301@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050725112622.GA1537@animx.eu.org>
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.
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-25 11:23 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 [this message]
2005-07-25 16:27 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-25 16:14 Aleksey Gorelov
2005-07-25 17:18 Christopher Allen Wing
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