From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:19:41 +0000
Subject: Re: New rule for xD FTL driver
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:01:31PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:05 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:45:48PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > Can udev helper tell udev to load modules by setting some variable?
> > 
> > Not really, except for the modalias stuff.  Use that if you can.
> > 
> > But I think you've pointed out the real solution already.  You need to
> > look at the signature on the device and then know what to load, just
> > like we do for filesystems.
> 
> Except we don't do that for file systems. We require an explicit mount
> call, and all fstype probing is done in userspace.

True.

So, what do you suggest for how to know how to load the individual mtd
drivers?

thanks,

greg k-h