Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932354AbZKXI5l (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:57:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932277AbZKXI5k (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:57:40 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com ([209.85.218.223]:43225 "EHLO mail-bw0-f223.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932244AbZKXI5k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:57:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200911240829.23067.linux@rainbow-software.org> References: <200911222201.59471.linux@rainbow-software.org> <200911240829.23067.linux@rainbow-software.org> From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:57:28 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, ...) does nothing To: Ondrej Zary Cc: Takashi Iwai , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Jaroslav Kysela , Greg KH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1995 Lines: 52 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:29, Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:40, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > At Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:59:53 +1030, >> > >> > Rusty Russell wrote: >> >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:31:57 am Ondrej Zary wrote: >> >> > The problem is that >> >> > scripts/mod/file2alias.c simply ignores isapnp. >> >> >> >> AFAICT it always has, and noone has complained until now.  Perhaps >> >> something was still reading /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.isapnpmap? >> > >> > I don't think modules.isapnpmap is needed again. >> > The question came from the fact that the isapnp device wasn't loaded >> > automatically. >> >> All the map files are not uses for anything these days. Ideally, >> depmod should just stop creating these dead files. >> >> > But, I thought Kay already added isapnp support sometime ago, but it >> > didn't seem to get in...  Kay? >> >> No, we don't even have proper modaliases for the pnp bus >> (/sys/bus/pnp) and the alias string for pnp in the modules have a >> broken and unfixable format. PNP autoloading is all handled by the >> acpi modaliases these days. This is the first time in years I hear >> anybody asking for hotplug setups of plain old pnp devices. :) > > > Added these two lines to modules.alias (and deleted modules.alias.bin): > alias acpi*:RTL8019:* ne > alias pnp:dRTL8019* ne > > and it works. This works too: > alias acpi*:PNP80d6:* ne > alias pnp:dPNP80d6* ne Oh, your box has acpi mapped pnp aliases for this device? You can see your ID string somewhere in this list? grep . /sys/bus/acpi/devices/*/modalias If not, is it in the pnp bus list? grep . /sys/bus/pnp/devices/*/id Thanks, Kay -- 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/