On Dec 05, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pushback on $SUBJECT patch. Which amounts to wanting to break hotplug > for several busses, unless someone (NOT the folk promoting the breakage!) Please explain in more details how hotplugging would be broken, possibly with examples.
> There are really two issues here: > > - The "real one", as (yes!) fixed by the $SUBJECT patch. Troublesome legacy > drivers, like "i82365", written so they can't hotplug ... but the kernel > hasn't previously known that. > > - The confusion, caused by a false identification of the "i82365" issue > being a problem related to module aliasing ... instead of being rooted in > the fact that it's a "legacy style" non-hotpluggable driver, since it > creates its own device node. Nonsense. The purpose of $MODALIAS is to allow automatically loading modules using the information provided by the bus driver. Because of this reason there is no point for a driver to provide a $MODALIAS referring to itself. It will only waste resources causing udev to try loading it again. -- ciao, Marco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
