Bug#286001: please consider purging discover1 after installation
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Joey Hess wrote:
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| What proof do you have that hotplug will discover all the same hardware as
| discover1, and load the same modules for it? If it doesn't, the
| installed system may not work.
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hotplug uses the information in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.*map,
i.e. the kernel developers knowledge about which hardware is
supported by their drivers. These tables are updated for each new
kernel by running 'depmod -a'.
discover[12] uses some manually edited table that gets updated
by the discover workers, e.g. if they receive a bug report about
some unsupported hardware. Sorry to say, but usually this table
is out of date.
Surely there are problems with both systems, but IMHE hotplug
supports more hardware than discover.
It would be possible to forward the basic information from the
modules.*map into discover's database, though. Or to tell discover
to read the modules.*map.
Regards
Harri
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