Re: Dynamic module loading

christian (crr@freemail.com.br)
Wed, 19 May 1999 21:04:32 -0300 (EST)


On Wed, 19 May 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:

> 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.

ppa doesn't depend on sd_mod - it does depend on scsi_mod and parport, but
not on sd_mod - see the problem.

> Interestingly, I actually have
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter ppa

For exactly that reason.

cr

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