Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760792AbXHTQAO (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:00:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759807AbXHTP75 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:59:57 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:55891 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1759763AbXHTP75 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:59:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:59:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: "Andreas Jellinghaus [c]" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u] In-Reply-To: <200708182132.11336.aj@ciphirelabs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 29 On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieben Sie: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > > > I need some kernel event that has both DEVICE and MODALIAS set. > > > up to including kernel 2.6.21 this seems to come from > > > drivers/usb/core/driver.c if I read the code correctly, and then > > > it was removed. > > > > > > udevmonitor --kernel --environment shows one event with both on 2.6.21 > > > plain, but not on 2.6.22 plain. > > > > Does this patch improve matters? > > yes, thanks, it does. can you add PRODUCT as well? > remembered too late that my scripts at least use it too. > but that one is no big issue, MODALIAS has the same information > so I could use that information. but other people might use it. I could, but I don't know whether any of this would be accepted for 2.6.22.stable. It might not be too late to get into 2.6.23... Alan Stern - 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/