Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 17:46:24 EST


On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:48:49AM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg KH write:
> > Very nice stuff. Ok, that's a good reason not to get rid of these
> > files, although they can be generated on the fly from the modules
> > themselves (like depmod does it.)
>
> Time to resurrect modinfo? ;-)
> Didn't we plan to get rid of that, too?

Not that I know of, modinfo works great for me here :)

> If we like to use information from modules, there should be a scriptable
> tool to extract this kind of information, otherwise it will be a bitch to
> maintain those tools.

modinfo works well for me in this manner, it doesn't for you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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