Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Otavio Salvador]
>> I think it can be improved. Let me explain my idea:
>>
>> If we build the module that we want to add on the database and write a
>> small script that uses modules.alias file updated with it we can write
>> the database will full module knownledge available. This would all
>> make possible to write a small script that does make this
>> automatically.
>>
>> grep ata_piix /lib/modules/2.6.22-1-686/modules.alias \
>> | sed 's,pci:v0000\(.*\)d0000\(.*\)sv.*,\1:\2,g' \
>> | sort -u
>
> I am unable to understand the idea. It might be because I do not know
> the use of the modules.alias file.
It has a list of pciids that a module has support to. Basically is
what udev uses for probing them. So we might use it to build the
database of external modules.
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