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Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:20:30 +0200
From:	md@...ux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: major 442

I just installed the Debian 2.6.18 kernel package and I noticed that it
repeatedly tries to load a major 442 module alias, which appears to be
used by the usb_endpoint devices.
Does anybody know why? I am not even using the USB ports.

md@...go:~$uname -a
Linux bongo 2.6.18-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 21 17:21:28 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
md@...go:~$while sleep 0.1; do ps axf|grep modprob[e]; done
 6424 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2049
 6429 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2049
 6438 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
 6447 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2048
 6460 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
 6473 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_8192
 6487 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
 6500 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_0
 6517 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
 6557 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_4096
 6562 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_4096
 6571 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
 6582 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
 6595 ?        R<     0:00      \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2051
[...]

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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