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Re: module autoloading problem with 177 / 178

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Subject: Re: module autoloading problem with 177 / 178
From: Sebastian Ude <ude@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:03:16 +0200
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Sebastian Ude wrote:

>I applied the devfs 178 patch (which was released today), and now
>module autoloading does not work for me at all (it worked before with
>the vanilla 2.4.5 Kernel / devfs 176).

>I also tried the 177 patch, and I got the same behaviour.

[...]

>Of course everything works when I insert the sr_mod kernel module
>manually:

[...]

>As i said it worked with the same setup and devfs 176.
>And the problem is not limited to the sr driver !
>As I said above, module autoloading does not work at all ... For
>example, I have the same problem with my ALSA sound modules since
>the upgrade.

I found a solution for the problem.

I had to change my aliases in the modules.conf, for example "/dev/snd" to
"/dev//snd" and it worked again.
Yep, this is no typo, I had to use two // instead of one.

Strange thing ... can somebody please explain this to me ?
Why does it only work with "alias /dev//[devname]" but not with "alias
/dev/[devname" with 177 / 178 ???

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