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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best practice for loading platform modules
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:12:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090429181250.GA29954@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4aed99f0904291105u1d4c0081qe91969a3ada64c96@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:11:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I see:
	MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" MUSB_DRIVER_NAME);
in the musb code, perhaps MUSB_DRIVER_NAME is not set correctly to be
"musb_hdrc" somehow?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29 18:05 Best practice for loading platform modules Chris Hallinan
2009-04-29 18:11 ` Greg KH
2009-04-29 18:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-04-29 18:31 ` Chris Hallinan
2009-04-29 18:44 ` Greg KH
2009-04-29 19:15 ` Chris Hallinan
2009-04-29 19:25 ` Greg KH
2009-04-29 19:33 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-29 19:35 ` Chris Hallinan
2009-04-29 19:46 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-29 19:53 ` Chris Hallinan
2009-04-29 20:18 ` Greg KH
2009-04-30  0:48 ` Chris Hallinan

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