Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:06 -0400 | From | Bill Nottingham <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically |
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Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said: > Ah, ok, makes sense. Yeah, that weird "platform devices loads itself by > the name" thing got disabled in the platform subsystem. It caused > modprobe loops for other devices. > > The whole idea of issuing MODALIAS with plain module names instead of > aliases can't really work, but the platform maintainer didn't like to > use the usual aliases and the matches in the modules, for a reason I > didn't understand while we talked about the problem last time.
So, the solution is for the platform device to issue a random modalias that pcskpr exports?
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