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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:26:54AM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: > I did some research, and interestingly enough, the ACPI _CID method allows > for compatible IDs even for PCI devices. These also would present a problem > for the modalias sysfs attribute. Again, you can do every "advanced" setup already today with poking around in the bind/unbind files in sysfs. Userspace just receives an event from the kernel and can do whatever it wants to do with the event: ignore it, load a specific module, start a userspace driver, or just ask modprobe to load the kernel supplied default module. The modalias is just a convenient way to provide a "default" module autoloading and is not expected to become a system management replacement with full featured policy integration. I don't really see a "real world" problem here. If some day we support this stuff and need a new interface we can just do this if someone proposes a better solution. For now modalias works just fine. As long as we have device table matches _in_ the kernel modules, there is no reason not to export the match value from the kernel at the same time. Thanks, Kay - 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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