Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:57:28 +0100 | Subject | Re: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, ...) does nothing |
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:29, Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:40, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote: >> > At Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:59:53 +1030, >> > >> > Rusty Russell wrote: >> >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:31:57 am Ondrej Zary wrote: >> >> > The problem is that >> >> > scripts/mod/file2alias.c simply ignores isapnp. >> >> >> >> AFAICT it always has, and noone has complained until now. Perhaps >> >> something was still reading /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.isapnpmap? >> > >> > I don't think modules.isapnpmap is needed again. >> > The question came from the fact that the isapnp device wasn't loaded >> > automatically. >> >> All the map files are not uses for anything these days. Ideally, >> depmod should just stop creating these dead files. >> >> > But, I thought Kay already added isapnp support sometime ago, but it >> > didn't seem to get in... Kay? >> >> No, we don't even have proper modaliases for the pnp bus >> (/sys/bus/pnp) and the alias string for pnp in the modules have a >> broken and unfixable format. PNP autoloading is all handled by the >> acpi modaliases these days. This is the first time in years I hear >> anybody asking for hotplug setups of plain old pnp devices. :) > > > Added these two lines to modules.alias (and deleted modules.alias.bin): > alias acpi*:RTL8019:* ne > alias pnp:dRTL8019* ne > > and it works. This works too: > alias acpi*:PNP80d6:* ne > alias pnp:dPNP80d6* ne
Oh, your box has acpi mapped pnp aliases for this device? You can see your ID string somewhere in this list? grep . /sys/bus/acpi/devices/*/modalias
If not, is it in the pnp bus list? grep . /sys/bus/pnp/devices/*/id
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