Re: How does "alias ethX drivername" in modules.conf work?

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 20:21:59 EST

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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:29:58PM -0700, Mark Atwood wrote:

    Is it some "magic" in depmod / modprobe? And how is the network
    interface identifier then passed into the module when it loads?

    A nice whitepaper or doc or a few pointers or handholding would be
    apprecated.

the kernel calls modprobe asking for the network device 'eth0',
modprobe uses the configuration file to map this to a module

--cw
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