On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:09:38AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > The wanted to have some information for use by udev. After looking at > the patch I wonder why they can't use the cutype/devtype attributes. > They already contain the information that gets exported by the new > attribute. It might be a little bit harder to parse because devtype can > be "n/a" but that certainly isn't rocket science. The modalias entry is matched against the alias strings generated by modpost and put into /lib/modules/$ver/modules.alias. This needs no special knowledge about this sort of hardware. Just take a look on how it is used by the pci and usb system. Bastian -- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1
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