[sane-devel] scanner.o modules

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

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.

Bye,
  Henning