Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

Kay Sievers
2007-08-08T22:36:39Z

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:22 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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?

I would still like to see "MODALIAS=platform:<string>" exported by the
bus, and matching aliases the modules, just like every other subsystem
does.

Like SCSI, with the "artificial" aliases for the modules it wants to
autoload:
$ /sbin/modinfo sd_mod
...
alias: scsi:t-0x0e*
alias: scsi:t-0x07*
alias: scsi:t-0x00*
...

$ cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/modalias
scsi:t-0x00

That way you would get full control over the loading or blacklisting
with module-init-tools config files, which doesn't work with direct
module name requests, and no magic in the bus code or the drivers would
be needed.

Kay