Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:57:57AM +0100, Lars Täuber wrote: > >>how come that the scanner.o module (e.g. 2.4.20) is not automatically >>loaded (after depmod -a ) when i have the following line in my modules.conf: >> >>alias char-major-180-48 scanner >> > > I don't know what's the reason exactly, but it is intended behaviour. > One reason may be that the minor number may change depending on your > kernel options (at least in 2.5). > > Automatic loading is done with the hotplug utilities.
Ok, seems I have to live with it, but it's a bad solution for me, because I can't switch off my scanner. So the module would be loaded on startup. I could compile it into the kernel and have the same behaviour. But thanks anyway for the hint. -- Gruß Lars Täuber
