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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500 From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com> To: "Jean Delvare" <khali@...ux-fr.org> Cc: i2c@...sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [i2c] [PATCH] update module-init-tools to support the i2c subsystem On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:14:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 1/13/08, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:39:37 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > Follow on to: "Series to add device tree naming to i2c" > > > > Teach module-init-tools about the i2c subsystem. > > > > > > Can you please explain what this patch does and why it is needed? > > > > It generates the entries needed for the user space module tools to > > work with the aliases. For example modprobe/depmod. It is a standard > > part of the kernel module system. > > What entries, where? What can you do after applying your patch that you > couldn't do before? The drivers you are testing with don't depend on other drivers. > I'm asking because automatic i2c driver loading works just fine for me > without patching user-space. So I don't get why your want to change > anything. > > -- > Jean Delvare > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@...il.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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