On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:00:29PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > Defining the vendor and the product id should be enough to discriminate > the device. > > The reason for this patch is that there is a missmatch betweed the > modalias showed by sysfs and the modalias generated by file2alias. > > One expects the programming interface in uppercase and the other > generates it in lowercase.
I don't understand, what is wrong here? Who does it in uppercase and who in lower? And does it matter? It's just a numeric value that should not be used as a string compare. > This means that some implementations modprobe will fail to load the > driver. What implementations fail to work? Shouldn't we fix the root of the problem and not just patch up all drivers to display incorrect data? And I mean incorrect, as you are changing the values here from being very specific, to being much broader. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
