From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ambx1@neo.rr.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:47:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4416BB73.5070801@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060314152944.797390cd.vsu@altlinux.ru>
Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> BTW, we can change the alias format for PNP device drivers to
>
> pnp:*dXXXYYYY*
>
> (note the additional "*" before the device ID). This would allow us to
> have a single-value "modalias" attribute for PNP logical devices too -
> it would have the form
>
> pnp:dXXXYYYYdXXXYYYYdXXXYYYY
>
> (listing all IDs, in this case sorting is not required, because each
> driver will match at most only a single dXXXYYYY entry).
>
How do you guarantee that the modules are tried in the correct order? Is
it well defined in modprobe that pnp:*dABC0001* would match before
pnp:*dXYZ0001* if the modalias is pnp:dABC0001dXYZ0001 ?
Rgds
Pierre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 21:40 [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export Pierre Ossman
2006-03-01 19:45 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-02 8:39 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-03-02 16:58 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-03 11:52 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-03-11 16:05 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-03-11 16:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-11 16:21 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-03-12 1:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 4:05 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-12 4:29 ` Adam Belay
2006-03-12 5:09 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-12 6:01 ` Adam Belay
2006-03-12 11:17 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-03-12 11:33 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-03-12 17:23 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-12 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 4:14 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-13 6:02 ` Adam Belay
2006-03-13 6:21 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-13 7:04 ` Adam Belay
2006-03-13 7:26 ` Adam Belay
2006-03-13 7:36 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-14 1:25 ` Adam Belay
2006-03-13 16:57 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-03-13 19:24 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-13 22:26 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-03-14 12:29 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-03-14 12:47 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2006-03-14 15:00 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-09 17:41 ` Pozsar Balazs
2006-05-12 11:09 ` Kay Sievers
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2006-03-11 17:07 Andrey Borzenkov
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