Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:56:12 +0100 | | From | Pierre Ossman <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] mmc: add MODALIAS linkage for MMC/SD devices |
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:00:03 +0000 Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> wrote: > > Would it make more sense to simply use mmc: with no data as the MODALIAS > tag here. And make mmc-block have mmc:* as an alias. That way the > actual (useless) numeric data is not exposed but we still will load the > mmc-block module for everything exactly as we do with the udev rule. > This should still make things work from a distro point of view and not > expose anything which might then get relied on. If we do it so extra > data can still be added later we won't prevent sane data being exposed > should we ever have any. > > If you are happier with that I can re-spin the patches that way? >
Well, as long as we're on the track of temporary hack, we might as well just export "mmc_block" as the modalias. Or would there be any side-effects to that?
Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman
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