Re: [PATCH 1/1] mmc: add MODALIAS linkage for MMC/SD devices

[Pierre Ossman]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:45:46 +0100
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 18:56, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Well, as long as we're on the track of temporary hack, we might as well
> > just export "mmc_block" as the modalias. Or would there be any
> > side-effects to that?
> 
> The common format is to prefix with "<subsystem>:". Something like
> "mmc:block" sounds fine to me.
> 

My point was to have the kernel explicitly ask for the module it wants
as there is no decent device to driver mapping scheme.

Rgds
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