Re: automatic driver loading functionality in Linux

[Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg.

> What you want to look at is the modules.alias file.  That is what makes
> things so simple, it creates a mapping from a device/product id to the
> actual module.

I get the idea now, thanks. So when a device is connected, a modalias
is generated with the vendor/productid and then modprobe can match
this against the modalias file to load the module in. Does udev do the
same thing when it has to autoload a module?

Thanks,
-Joel

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