Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:21:38 +0100 | From | Kay Sievers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] INPUT: add MODALIAS to the event environment |
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:14:00AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >>Greg KH wrote: > >> > >>>[PATCH] INPUT: add MODALIAS to the event environment > >>> > >>>input: add MODALIAS to the event environment > >>> > >>Could you please tell me sample modaliases for a number of "common" > >>devices (like a PS/2 mouse)? > >> > >>I ask because earlier (namely, in > >>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/old/gregkh-all-2.6.15.patch) > >>such modaliases contained commas (",") and comma is not a "trusted" > >>character in Udev (see replace_untrusted_chars() in udev_utils_string.c). > >>Thus, such modaliases were mangled and didn't work. > > > >Only if you read it with $sysfs{modalias}, it's available in $env{MODALIAS} > >and does not get mangled there, right? If you have problems with that, > >let us know and we will fix it. > > > > > With the old gregkh-all-2.6.15.patch, I have: > > sh-3.1# cat /sys/class/input/input1/modalias > input:b0011v0002p0004e0000-e0,1,2,k110,111,112,113,114,r0,1,8,amlsfw
> i.e., there is the "modalias" file in sysfs but no $MODALIAS in the > environment. Is this the problem that your patch solves (note: I haven't > tried it yet)?
Well, you could have read the mail's subject, before posting.
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