Re: how does kernel know?

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:16:44PM +0500, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
>    Thanks Greg, i needed such a direct answer to my question. Thanks.

I better not have just answered a homework question...

Oh, and I forgot to mention the MODULE_ALIAS() marks in the drivers
which are pulled out of them by modprobe at run time to determine which
driver to actually load.

greg k-h

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