On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 05:38:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pierre Ossman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Here is a patch for doing multi line modalias for PNP devices. This will
> > break udev, so that needs to be updated first.
> >
> > I had a longer look at the card part and it seems that module aliases
> > cannot be reliably used for it. Not without restructuring the system at
> > least. The possible combinations explode when you notice that the driver
> > ids needs to be just at subset of the card, without any ordering.
> >
> > If I got my calculations right, a PNP card would have to have roughly
> > 2^(2n) aliases, where n is the number of device ids. So right now, I
> > lean towards only adding modalias support for the non-card part of the
> > PNP layer.
> >
> > Andrew, do you want a fix for the patch in -mm or can you remove the
> > part of it that modifies drivers/pnp/card.c by yourself?
>
> I assume you mean that the drivers/pnp/card.c patch of
> pnp-modalias-sysfs-export.patch needs to be removed and this patch applies
> on top of the result.
>
> But I don't want to break udev.
Right, we should not start multiline modalias sysfs files. Eighter we
get all aliases encoded in a single string, maybe like macio is doing it:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=drivers/macintosh/macio_sysfs.c#l42
and we can pass that single string to modprobe, or we better stay with
the current one-line udev PNP rule which uses /bin/sh to do the job, which
works just fine.
Also MODALIAS in the event environment is required at the same time
the sysfs file is added. And that should also not be a multi-line
value.
Thanks,
Kay
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