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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc4-git] s390, ccw - export modalias
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:20:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051014042058.GA8232@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051012125939.6ee58910.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:59:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> wrote:
> >
> > This patch exports modalias for ccw devices.
> 
> And why do we want to do that?

So you can do:
	modprobe `echo /sys/device/path_to_device/modalias`
and the proper driver will automatically be loaded by userspace.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-14  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-12 19:26 [PATCH 2.6.14-rc4-git] s390, ccw - export modalias Bastian Blank
2005-10-12 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-13  9:09   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-10-13 10:09     ` Bastian Blank
2005-10-13 11:03     ` Bastian Blank
2005-10-14  4:20   ` Greg KH [this message]

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