Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:26:44 -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: 
> > See:
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178998
> > 
> > This doesn't work for everything.
> 
> Sure not, and I don't think "everything" in PnP will ever work. :) But
> it does the same as the modalias patch to the kernel we are talking about.
> There are device table entries completely missing and some other don't
> match. Some of them can be fixed by adding the aliases as modprobe.conf
> entries.

Well, it's just that if this is the solution proposed, I'd like it if
it worked for any of the people who are seeing problems - in our bugs,
it hasn't helped any of them yet.

Bill
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