From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:11:35 +0000
Subject: Re: Best practice for loading platform modules
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:05:37PM -0400, Chris Hallinan wrote:
> I have an OMAP3 board, and want usb (host mode) configured as a
> loadable module.  Using a generic rule such as this:
> RUN+="/sbin/modprobe -b $env{MODALIAS}"
> 
> ends up passing "platform:musb_hdrc" to modprobe, which obviously
> fails.

Why would that fail?  Do you have the proper modalias in the kernel
module to handle this?  If not, can you add it?

thanks,

greg k-h