Re: [PATCH 2/3] openfirmware: adds sysfs nodes for openfirmware devices

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 06:11:54 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, Jeff Mahoney wrote:

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> Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 03, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> >>Is whitespace (in any form) allowed in the compatible value?
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> > Yes, whitespace is used at least in the toplevel compatible file, like
> > 'Power Macintosh' in some Pismo models.
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> Oh well, it was wishful thinking anyway. ;)

The same thing needs to be solved for vio devices, the properties can
contain spaces. depmod and modprobe have to deal with it to generate a
valid module.alias file.
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