On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
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> On Friday 22 August 2008 06:43:05 am Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 06:06 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> > Since PNP currently doesn't generate any uevents or modalias files,
>> > I expect that a non-ACPI system will be unable to autoload modules
>> > for ISAPNP or PNPBIOS devices.  Right?
>>
>> They do create events, but without modalias. The shell script hack,
>> which udev runs, will make the event behave like it contained one.
>
> I'm finally looking at this again; sorry for the long hiatus.  I'm
> working on a patch to add PNP uevent support, modalias sysfs files
> for PNP, and file2alias.c changes to match, and I just want to
> make sure I'm understanding this correctly.

Sounds good, just in mind, that there are custom modprobe configs out
there, that rely on the current pnp alias format, like:
  alias pnp:dPNP0510 irtty-sir
  alias pnp:dPNP0511 irtty-sir
  alias pnp:dPNP0700 floppy
  alias pnp:dPNP0303 atkbd
  alias pnp:dPNP0f13 psmouse
  ...
We should make sure, that this still works, which wouldn't if we just
do the acpi style aliases.

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> Before your file2alias.c changes[1], I think we generated this:
>    alias pnp:dPNP0500* 8250_pnp
>
> We relied on the udev shell hack to run "modprobe -a pnp:dPNP0500"
> based on the contents of /sys/bus/pnp/devices/00:05/id.
>
> With your file2alias.c changes, we now generate this:
>    alias acpi*:PNP0500:* 8250_pnp
>    alias pnp:dPNP0500* 8250_pnp
>
> On ACPI systems, this works fine because "acpi*:PNP0500:*" matches
> the ACPI-generated uevents like:
>    MODALIAS=acpi:PNP0501:PNP0500:
>
> We can load 8250_pnp without relying on the udev shell hack
> *on ACPI systems*.
>
> I thought the object of your file2alias.c changes was to remove the
> need for the udev shell hack, but don't we still require it on
> non-ACPI systems because they won't emit the ACPI uevents?

Yes, the plan is to move that rule from the default udev rule set to
the isapnp package.

Thanks,
Kay
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