major 442

From: Marco d'Itri
Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 - 06:21:01 EST


I just installed the Debian 2.6.18 kernel package and I noticed that it
repeatedly tries to load a major 442 module alias, which appears to be
used by the usb_endpoint devices.
Does anybody know why? I am not even using the USB ports.

md@bongo:~$uname -a
Linux bongo 2.6.18-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 21 17:21:28 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
md@bongo:~$while sleep 0.1; do ps axf|grep modprob[e]; done
6424 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2049
6429 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2049
6438 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
6447 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2048
6460 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
6473 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_8192
6487 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
6500 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_0
6517 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
6557 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_4096
6562 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_4096
6571 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
6582 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442
6595 ? R< 0:00 \_ /sbin/modprobe -q -- char_major_442_2051
[...]

--
ciao,
Marco
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