[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [7542] - fix loading modules with "-" in their names (mga#9242)

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Fri Mar 15 07:50:40 CET 2013


Op donderdag 14 maart 2013 21:25:15 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
> On 14 March 2013 20:29, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> >> > - fix loading modules with "-" in their names (mga#9242)
> >> > - add an easy buildtarget for testing
> >> 
> >> A couple remarks:
> >> - next time do a commit a time (first your change, then bumping version)
> > 
> > ah, ok, is there a reason for this (to have separate a change and then a
> > version bump)?
> 
> in order to have smaller easier to review commits.
> You really do not want to come on big old commits when trying to understand
> a problem.
> 
> >> I hope you tested several modules with both case?
> > 
> > yes, i tried with several. and since the xen-netfront modules aren't
> > autodetected for some reason (i'm trying to look into it)
> 
> b/c it has no pci/usb alias, only the following (which we do not look for)
> alias:          xennet
> alias:          xen:vif
> 
> well, we don't know how to detect that.

supposedly udev should give events to load that...

but perhaps stage1 doesn't use udev?

would you think it would be ok, to manually add such workaround code in 
stage1?


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