Re: [hpoj-devel] 2.4.0 kernel issues

[John L. C. <jl...@cf...>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:12:29AM -0700, David Paschal wrote:

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> That part is left over from the previous maintainers.  The new
> "make install" I added to the top-level directory doesn't even invoke
> makefiles in subdirectories.  By default, it installs the modules under
> /usr/local/lib, which doesn't help make it accessible to modprobe.
> Based on John Chmielewski's message from September 13, it sounds like it
> could be moved to (or possibly symlinked in) /lib/modules/misc, but there's
> still the problem that modprobe doesn't detect that ieee12844pp.o depends
> on parport_probe, not just parport and parport_pc.  My idea was to add a
> dummy function in ieee12844pp.c which never got called but which made a
> reference to a function in parport_probe (for example, parport_probe()).
> Since you're working on this code at the moment could you try this out and
> let me know if it fixes the problem (or I can try it myself later).

If you do a modprobe -c, you will see the directories that are searched
for modules.  Besides directories under specific kernel versions, modprobe
will also search specific directories under /lib/modules, if they exist.
So I created /lib/modules/misc and moved the ieee12844 modules there.  I
would like to see the modules installed there instead of /usr/local/lib.

Burkhard Kohl sent a message to this list explaining how to set up
conf.modules, as a workaround, so the modules load.  I modified it
into two lines:
	above parport parport_pc
	below ieee12844 parport_probe


John Chmielewski