Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:11:35 +0100
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
Cc: Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] INPUT: add MODALIAS to the event environment
Message-ID: <20060114141135.GA12581@vrfy.org>
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:42:47PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> >
> >>i.e., there is the "modalias" file in sysfs but no $MODALIAS in the 
> >>environment. Is this the problem that your patch solves (note: I haven't 
> >>tried it yet)?
> >
> >Well, you could have read the mail's subject, before posting.
> >
> Indeed, sorry.
> 
> I have applied your patch on top of gregkh-all-2.6.15.patch and changed 
> my module-loading udev rule to:
> 
> ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*",    RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}"
> 
> Now this works and loads modules for my PS/2 mouse. Thanks for the patch.

Great, thanks for testing it. Do you have any subsystem left, that could
support modalias, but doesn't?

Thanks,
Kay
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