Re: char/tpm: tpm_infineon no longer loaded for HP 2510p laptop

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:58 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 03:18:33 pm Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > >Is there a "complete idiot's guide to modules
> > >and udev"?  There's precious little in Documentation/ other than a bunch
> > >of sample rules for various subsystems.
> > 
> > I don't know of any specific documentation, but it's pretty easy:
> > ...
> 
> Thanks for the tutorial.
> 
> > >Could I fix this by implementing pnp_device_uevent()?
> > 
> > Only if we change the format of the current pnp device aliases
> > to something like:
> >   pnp*:XYZ2324:*
> >   pnp*:ABC1234:*
> > 
> > and create a "modalias" file at every pnp device, and add MODALIAS to
> > the uevent. The modalias must contains all ID's which belong to that
> > device in one single string, separated and terminated by a special
> > character, something like:
> >   pnp:ABC1234:XYZ2324:RST3445:
> 
> This all sounds like good stuff that I'd like PNP to have.  Is there
> any reason I shouldn't implement pnp_device_uevent()?  Any backwards-
> compatibility issues?

Yeah, people probably use the current aliases in modprobe.conf files,
I'm not sure, if we can change them.

> I think that sounds like a better solution than doing this PNP ID
> mangling.

Sure, that will go with the acpi aliases + acpi modalias, or if you
change pnp to have proper pnp aliases + pnp modalias, then with them,
yes.

Thanks,
Kay