Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export

From: Matthieu CASTET
Date: Sun Mar 12 2006 - 06:31:58 EST


Hi,

Le Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:17:19 +0100, Pierre Ossman a écrit :
> The reason I'm pushing this issue is that Red Hat decided to drop all
> magical scripts that figured out what modules to load and instead only
> use the modalias attribute. They consider the right way to go is to get
> the PNP layer to export modalias, so that's what I'm trying to do.
>
> Bugzilla entry for those interested:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146405
>
IIRC debian maintainers want also to use only modalias stuff.
see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337004
and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334238

Matthieu

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