Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
thanks, the patch works great! would be nice if it could be send to the stable team as well (I think a number of distributions want to use 2.6.22 as base for there next release, and I would be happy if users had the patch in it). sorry for creating confusion: initially I thought MODALIAS had been

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Kay Sievers: > The subject says MODALIAS was removed, but I don't think that it ever > was there for a usb-device event. And sure, it's still there for a > usb-interface event. > > Andreas, do I read this right, you miss: > DEVICE, PRODUCT, TYPE > in the usb-i

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Greg KH: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:22:04PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit > >diff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f > > > > removes MODA

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-20 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Montag, 20. August 2007 schrieb Alan Stern: > 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... even without it is a first step. I hope it gets accepted into both, as 2.6.22 broke kernel<->user space interfaces a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
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 corre

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit > >diff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f > > > > removes MODALIAS from one of t

why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f removes MODALIAS from one of the events, this breaks user space applications like openct - everything that depends on getting an event that has both the DEVICE= path to the usb

Re: initramfs [u]

2005-07-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Jacek Jab?o?ski wrote: > Do You know any tool to create initramfs (not initrd)? that is very easy: create a directory tree with everything you want in it (for example ld.so, a libc, some applications and config files and scripts and device files and whatever) and then use cpio to pack the files an