From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756785AbZCGAC7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:02:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753493AbZCGACt (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:02:49 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60294 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752607AbZCGACs (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:02:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:02:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Kay Sievers Cc: scott@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, phdm@macqel.be Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: Provide a PNP device table in the module. Message-Id: <20090306160211.754d8251.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20090306154852.8354fe52.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:52:50 +0100 Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 00:48, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:50:47 +0000 > > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > >> The missing device table means that the floppy module is not > >> auto-loaded, even when the appropriate PNP device (0700) is found. > > > > Is this a regression? __Did 2.6.28 autoload OK? > > No, it was never autoloaded by a kernel supplied alias. We ship > special modprobe rules which define the alias, and this is part of an > ongoing effort to move that information where it belongs, into the > module itself. > OK, thanks, I tossed it onto the 2.6.30 pile.