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Old 03-02-2013, 05:25 PM   #1
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What happened to the modules.xxxmap files?


I just started using Fedora 17 with the 3.3.4 kernel and, much to my surprise, there are no files in /lib/modules/<kernel_version> of the form modules.xxxmap, ie, modules.pcimap, modules.usbmap, etc. What happened? How is the link between devices and drivers being done these days?

Thanks, Doug
 
Old 03-02-2013, 11:03 PM   #2
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The role of udev has been expanded, and the newer kernels have more drivers "built-in," so fewer *.ko files are needed.

Look at, for example, /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules to see what udev now does with PCI and USB devices.
 
Old 03-03-2013, 04:32 PM   #3
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So are you saying that depmod (OK, kmod) now writes udev rules files instead of the map files?
 
Old 03-03-2013, 09:22 PM   #4
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I'm not sure about kmod, but, generally speaking, things like kmod, on Fedora, should generate the appropriate systemd scripts to get their mods installed. (My old laptop has a nVidia graphics chip that's so old that the nouveau driver "barfed" and, IIRC, when I installed the propitiatory driver from RPMFusion [which also barfed, but nv + nomodeset works] that's what the RPMFusion installation script did.)
 
  


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