Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

Kay Sievers
2007-08-08T19:59:28Z

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:32 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said:
> > It doesn't have any aliases, so seems it was never autoloaded.
>
> It was - prior kernels loaded it via the uevent generated from
> /devices/platform/pcspkr. Newer kernels seem to never actually
> trigger a uevent from that (tested with a combination of
> udevmonitor and 'udevtrigger --subsystem-match=platform'.)

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.

Kay