Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:23:02PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:41:11 +0100
> Jurriaan <thunder7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:43:36PM +0300
> > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100
> > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed that there are 
> > > > now two modules "scx200" in the kernel...
> > > 
> > > They are almost mutually exlusive(SuperIO contains more advanced), 
> > > so I do not see any problem here.
> > > Only one of them can be loaded in a time.
> > > 
> > > So what does exactly bother you?
> > > 
> > lsmod in bugreports giving unspecific results, for example.
> 
> If you load scx200 from superio subsystem, then obviously you can not
> use old i2c/acb modules which require old scx200.
> And vice versa.
> 
> One needs to load exactly what he wants.

You did not understand what Jurriaan said:

Even if it was working, "lsmod" would not be able to tell which of the 
two modules was loaded.

This would cause much headache for many people.

> > Kind regards,
> > Jurriaan
> 
> 	Evgeniy Polyakov

cu
Adrian

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