Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:24:11 +0100 | From | Kay Sievers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export |
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:57:19AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said: > > There is no need to rush out with this half-baken solution. This simple > > udev rule does the job for you, if you want pnp module autoloading with > > the current kernel: > > SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'while read id; do /sbin/modprobe pnp:d$$id; done < /sys$devpath/id'" > > See: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178998 > > This doesn't work for everything.
Sure not, and I don't think "everything" in PnP will ever work. :) But it does the same as the modalias patch to the kernel we are talking about. There are device table entries completely missing and some other don't match. Some of them can be fixed by adding the aliases as modprobe.conf entries.
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