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

From: Bill Nottingham
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 17:24:38 EST


Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx) said:
> > See:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178998
> >
> > This doesn't work for everything.
>
> Sure not, and I don't think "everything" in PnP will ever work. :) But
> it does the same as the modalias patch to the kernel we are talking about.
> There are device table entries completely missing and some other don't
> match. Some of them can be fixed by adding the aliases as modprobe.conf
> entries.

Well, it's just that if this is the solution proposed, I'd like it if
it worked for any of the people who are seeing problems - in our bugs,
it hasn't helped any of them yet.

Bill
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