Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:45:50 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 21:57 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:32:19 +0200, "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote: > > > I guess there are some out-of-tree users of this driver, but fixing > > > them is really trivial, so I don't think this is a big compatibility > > > problem. > > > > Again, the only sane solution is to provide MODALIAS="platform:<name>" > > from the platform bus, and adding the aliases to drivers who support > > autoloading. Modalias strings are not free-text strings, they are > > required to be prefixed by the subsystem. > > I guess your objection is to my usage of MODULE_ALIAS, right?
No, I object to the concept of "platform" to disable all uevents by default, just to work around its MODALIAS misuse. The rest of the kernel works properly, and userspace has a unified way to handle events and module loading. There is absolutely no reason for "platform" to be different and break all reasonable assumptions of module-init-tools, udev and HAL.
Thanks, Kay
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