Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763697AbXHHWWX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756349AbXHHWWP (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36714 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752967AbXHHWWO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:06 -0400 From: Bill Nottingham To: Kay Sievers Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel , Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically Message-ID: <20070808222206.GA12375@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Kay Sievers , Chuck Ebbert , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel , Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH References: <46B8C8FA.9020100@redhat.com> <46B8D984.7040602@garzik.org> <46B8E773.5020406@redhat.com> <3ae72650708071523s24d80ae4v2590c50aea04c850@mail.gmail.com> <20070808193220.GB5001@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <1186603327.3584.12.camel@lov.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1186603327.3584.12.camel@lov.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 19 Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said: > Ah, ok, makes sense. Yeah, that weird "platform devices loads itself by > the name" thing got disabled in the platform subsystem. It caused > modprobe loops for other devices. > > The whole idea of issuing MODALIAS with plain module names instead of > aliases can't really work, but the platform maintainer didn't like to > use the usual aliases and the matches in the modules, for a reason I > didn't understand while we talked about the problem last time. So, the solution is for the platform device to issue a random modalias that pcskpr exports? Bill - 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/