Re: mei modalias files missing device name and newline

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]
> There's no "requirement" that modalias sysfs files have to have a
> trailing newline, so why is this considered "missing"?

This all started when it was discovered that after more than 8 years,
this one liner no longer worked as well as it used to:

  cat $(find /sys/devices -name modalias) | sort -u

> Not all, most.  If you want them all to, then we must sweep the whole
> tree and fix them up.  And then deal with any fallout where that
> happens to break things :)

>From my perspective, as the author of the isenkram package, it was the
introduction of entries without newlines that broke things, not the
other way around.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen