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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2013-07-20 14:29:12 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2013-07-20 14:31:53 +0200
commitbf7f800f2b3e93ccd1229d4717166f3a4d3af72f (patch)
tree94a0967666da9d4fcbda5cb8558d2a7e4f346c32 /src
parente7c431d3bcfdeeec5dcae0707145edb9a3f749aa (diff)
rules: drivers - always call kmod, even when a driver is bound to the device
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > After a recent change present in 3.11-rc1 there is a driver, called processor, > that can be bound to the CPU devices whose sysfs directories are located under > /sys/devices/system/cpu/. A side effect of this is that, after the driver has > been bound to those devices, the kernel adds DRIVER=processor to ENV for CPU > uevents and they don't match the default rule for autoloading modules matching > MODALIAS: > > DRIVER!="?*", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", IMPORT{builtin}="kmod load $env{MODALIAS}" > > any more. However, there are some modules whose module aliases match specific > CPU features through the modalias string and those modules should be loaded > automatically if a compatible CPU is present. Yet, with the processor driver > bound to the CPU devices the above rule is not sufficient for that, so we need > a new default udev rule allowing those modules to be autoloaded even if the > CPU devices have drivers.
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