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From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rules: avoid reading DRIVER for devices without modalias
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:46:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A87C757.8080004@tuffmail.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A268DF5.2030108@tuffmail.co.uk>

Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 03, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> DRIVER requires a readlink() in sysfs.  The MODALIAS key is provided by
>> uevent and requires no additional read.  Test MODALIAS first.
>>     
> What is the point of checking both DRIVER and ENV{MODALIAS}?
> The Debian rules files always checked only ENV{MODALIAS}.
>   
I think the idea is to avoid calling modprobe if the driver was built 
into the kernel (or the module is already loaded).

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-16  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03 14:51 [PATCH] rules: avoid reading DRIVER for devices without modalias Alan Jenkins
2009-06-03 19:54 ` Kay Sievers
2009-06-03 20:10 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-08-15 23:32 ` [PATCH] rules: avoid reading DRIVER for devices without Marco d'Itri
2009-08-16  8:46 ` Alan Jenkins [this message]
2009-08-16 10:51 ` Marco d'Itri

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