Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:38:19AM +0100, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > This functionality is essential for us to work out which drivers are
> > supplied by which modules.  We use this in turn to work out which
> > modules are necessary to find the root device (and hence what
> > initrd/initramfs needs to insert).
> 
> So what will your userland code do when you run it on a system with
> non-modular kernel currently running?
> 
> IOW, that's a fundamentally broken interface - you really want the same
> information regardless of modular vs. built-in.

I agree, and Rusty has some pending patches that provide that
information for all drivers built into the system.  When they are
merged, this symlink will be created for those also (with a bit of
tweaking, but it will happen.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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