[sane-devel] scanner.o modules

[Lars Täuber]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

> 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.

Ok, seems I have to live with it, but it's a bad solution for me, 
because I can't switch off my scanner. So the module would be loaded on 
startup. I could compile it into the kernel and have the same behaviour.

But thanks anyway for the hint.


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Gruß
Lars Täuber