Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:57:19 -0500
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       ambx1@neo.rr.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PNP] 'modalias' sysfs export
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Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said: 
> There is no need to rush out with this half-baken solution. This simple
> udev rule does the job for you, if you want pnp module autoloading with
> the current kernel:
>   SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'while read id; do /sbin/modprobe pnp:d$$id; done < /sys$devpath/id'"

See:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178998

This doesn't work for everything.

Bill
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