Bugzilla Bug 84231

hotplug-ng and pcmciutils require modprobe to load all modules matching an
alias string, not only the first. This patch -- not yet attached by upstream --
allows modprobe to do so.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=52745) [details]
patch for module-init-tools-3.2-pre1

Created an attachment (id=52746) [details]
ebuild for module-init-tools-3.2-pre1-r1

*** Bug 84230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

does upstream know about said bug/patch ?

I sent patch to upstream a few days ago, haven't got a reply yet, though.

Dominik, did you get a reply from upstream yet?

unfortunately, I haven't received a reply from upstream yet.

Dominik, what is the status of your patch? Was it included in upstream
module-init-tools-3.2-pre2?

Upstream is a lazy bum and has been on a vacation tromping around europe for a
month or two.  Now he is off talking at a conference for another week, so who 
knows when he will get around to accepting the patch :)

Anyway, the patch looks good to me, please feel free to apply it, the
hotplug-ng
work would really like this to go in, and I'll keep bugging upstream to take
it eventually...

upstream actually sent me a reply on this patch, he's not excited about the
macro (mis)use; hopefully I'll get to integrate it into current
module-init-tools really soon now. I'm quite busy, though...

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/10/40 -- module-init-tools-3.2-pre4 is out and
handles this case. Can we get an ebuild for -pre4 into portage? Or do you want
to wait for module-init-tools-3.2? Also, should this bug be rejected and bug #
84230 (which is a version bump, after all) be used instead?

I'd like to have -pre4 in portage before linux-2.6.12 goes final in order to
resolve bug #84234 - vapier, did you want to take care of the version bump?

just to clarify: bug 84234 depends on PCMCIA changes still only in -mm. They're
likely to be merged for 2.6.13-rc1, though. Nonetheless it'd be excellent to
have the infrastructure (patched-up sysfs, bug 84228 , and this
module-init-tools ) ready when this merge hits Linus' tree.

Aha - I was under the impression that the PCMCIA sub-system changed were in
2.6.12-rcX. Thank you for clearing that up - and yes, we should have the
infrastructure ready before the change hits Linus' tree.

sorry for the delay, but i'd prefer to not touch this package if i can avoid it

also, if you have patches/fixes for module-init-tools, rusty is pretty responsive, so you can e-mail him the changes directly

-pre4 is in the tree, but I see no trace of your patch. Can we consider this
RESOLVED anyway as they fixed it in  a different manner probably?

Yes, this issue is fixed in module-init-tools-3.2-pre4.