From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964796AbVJLOhG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:37:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964797AbVJLOhG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:37:06 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:5592 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964796AbVJLOhF (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:37:05 -0400 Subject: Re: modalias entries for ccw devices From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Bastian Blank Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051012141218.GA4039@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> References: <20051012141218.GA4039@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:36:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1129127818.32420.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 16:12 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi Bastian, > The ccw devices currently don't have a modalias spec in sysfs. This > makes it impossible to ask udev for loading the modules. Hmm, never heard of modalias. Arnd has done the module loading for ccw devices. That must be something rather new. > Are there any patches pending? No, but as far as I can tell after glancing at the modalias implementation in usb this would make sense for ccw as well. -- blue skies, Martin Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH