Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:38:47 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export |
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Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote: > > Here is a patch for doing multi line modalias for PNP devices. This will > break udev, so that needs to be updated first. > > I had a longer look at the card part and it seems that module aliases > cannot be reliably used for it. Not without restructuring the system at > least. The possible combinations explode when you notice that the driver > ids needs to be just at subset of the card, without any ordering. > > If I got my calculations right, a PNP card would have to have roughly > 2^(2n) aliases, where n is the number of device ids. So right now, I > lean towards only adding modalias support for the non-card part of the > PNP layer. > > Andrew, do you want a fix for the patch in -mm or can you remove the > part of it that modifies drivers/pnp/card.c by yourself?
I assume you mean that the drivers/pnp/card.c patch of pnp-modalias-sysfs-export.patch needs to be removed and this patch applies on top of the result.
But I don't want to break udev. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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