Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export

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

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:17:19PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I assume you mean that the drivers/pnp/card.c patch of
> > pnp-modalias-sysfs-export.patch needs to be removed and this patch applies
> > on top of the result.
> >
> > But I don't want to break udev.
> >   
> 
> I suppose I wasn't entirely clear there. I'd like you to do the first
> part (remove the card.c part), but not apply this second patch. I just
> sent that in as a means of getting the ball rolling again.

Again, multiline sysfs modalias files are not going to happen. Find a
sane way to encode the list of devices into a single string, or don't do
it at all. And it must be available in the event environment too.

> The reason I'm pushing this issue is that Red Hat decided to drop all
> magical scripts that figured out what modules to load and instead only
> use the modalias attribute. They consider the right way to go is to get
> the PNP layer to export modalias, so that's what I'm trying to do.

There is no need to rush out with this half-baken solution. This simple
udev rule does the job for you, if you want pnp module autoloading with
the current kernel:
  SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'while read id; do /sbin/modprobe pnp:d$$id; done < /sys$devpath/id'"

Andrew, please make sure, that this patch does not hit mainline until
there is a _sane_ solution to the multiple id's exported for a single
device problem.

Thanks,
Kay