Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

[Net Llama!]

On 07/13/03 11:09, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 
>> Supposing there is a device I just invented called a Belchfire 90 
>> mob-ulator... and I write a module for it.  How could the kernel 
>> possibly use my module?  It wouldn't know when to call it...  Same 
>> thing goes for a new USB device that hasn't been defined to the USB 
>> modules.
>>
>> If the ALSA modules can be compiled and supplied out of the blue...  
>> then either they don't rely on the kernel or the kernel has been told 
>> about them.
> 
> Telling the kernel about foreign modules, isn't that the job of the 
> "alias" lines in modules.conf?
> There I have:
> ...
> alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
> ...
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> among many others, the right-hand side always pointing to a file in
> /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/

No, the alias is just that, an alias that provides a more friendly name for 
the type of service that a module provides.  If it were only for foreign 
modules, then most people wouldn't use it at all.


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