Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:47:47 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export |
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Sergey Vlasov wrote: > BTW, we can change the alias format for PNP device drivers to > > pnp:*dXXXYYYY* > > (note the additional "*" before the device ID). This would allow us to > have a single-value "modalias" attribute for PNP logical devices too - > it would have the form > > pnp:dXXXYYYYdXXXYYYYdXXXYYYY > > (listing all IDs, in this case sorting is not required, because each > driver will match at most only a single dXXXYYYY entry). >
How do you guarantee that the modules are tried in the correct order? Is it well defined in modprobe that pnp:*dABC0001* would match before pnp:*dXYZ0001* if the modalias is pnp:dABC0001dXYZ0001 ?
Rgds Pierre
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