Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750731AbVJMJJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:09:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750785AbVJMJJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:09:45 -0400 Received: from mtagate2.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.151]:28623 "EHLO mtagate2.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbVJMJJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:09:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc4-git] s390, ccw - export modalias From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Andrew Morton Cc: Bastian Blank , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051012125939.6ee58910.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20051012192639.GA25481@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> <20051012125939.6ee58910.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:09:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1129194579.5305.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > This patch exports modalias for ccw devices. > > And why do we want to do that? The wanted to have some information for use by udev. After looking at the patch I wonder why they can't use the cutype/devtype attributes. They already contain the information that gets exported by the new attribute. It might be a little bit harder to parse because devtype can be "n/a" but that certainly isn't rocket science. -- blue skies, Martin Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/