Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

Bill Nottingham
2007-08-08T22:22:23Z

Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said:
> Ah, ok, makes sense. Yeah, that weird "platform devices loads itself by
> the name" thing got disabled in the platform subsystem. It caused
> modprobe loops for other devices.
>
> The whole idea of issuing MODALIAS with plain module names instead of
> aliases can't really work, but the platform maintainer didn't like to
> use the usual aliases and the matches in the modules, for a reason I
> didn't understand while we talked about the problem last time.

So, the solution is for the platform device to issue a random modalias
that pcskpr exports?

Bill