Re: Dynamic module loading

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 19 May 1999 19:44:45 +0100


On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 03:47:04PM -0300, christian wrote:

> In a related note, I once saw a conf.modules model that had multiple
> aliases - for example,
>
> block-major-8 sd_mod ppa
>
> which is exactly what I'd desire - since I need both to be loaded. Does
> this work now (2.2.9?) I'm sure it didn't in 2.2.2.

I would have thought that when modprobe loads ppa, it would pull in sd_mod
automatically, as long as your dependency information from depmod is up-to-date.

Interestingly, I actually have

alias scsi_hostadapter ppa

S.

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