Sebastian Ude writes:
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> Sebastian Ude wrote:
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> >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).
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> >I also tried the 177 patch, and I got the same behaviour.
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> [...]
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> >Of course everything works when I insert the sr_mod kernel module
> >manually:
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> [...]
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> >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.
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> I found a solution for the problem.
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> 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.
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> 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 ???
Yeah, I know. It's a bug in the devfs code that I introduced. I'll be
putting out a new patch to fix this. Probably not until after the
weekend, when we get power back in our building at work.
Regards,
Richard....
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