From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808222206.GA12375@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186603327.3584.12.camel@lov.localdomain>
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?
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 19:33 Chuck Ebbert
2007-08-07 20:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-07 21:43 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-08-07 22:23 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 19:32 ` Bill Nottingham
2007-08-08 20:02 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-08 22:22 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2007-08-08 22:39 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-04 5:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-11-04 8:30 ` Kay Sievers
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