Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export

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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