From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030316AbWANNlr (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:41:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030352AbWANNlr (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:41:47 -0500 Received: from relay4.usu.ru ([194.226.235.39]:39308 "EHLO relay4.usu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030316AbWANNlq (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:41:46 -0500 Message-ID: <43C8FFD7.3030408@ums.usu.ru> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:42:47 +0500 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg K-H , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] INPUT: add MODALIAS to the event environment References: <11371818082670@kroah.com> <11371818084013@kroah.com> <43C88898.10900@ums.usu.ru> <20060114110401.GA11237@vrfy.org> <43C8F962.9030409@ums.usu.ru> <20060114132138.GA12273@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060114132138.GA12273@vrfy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.15; AVE: 6.33.0.27; VDF: 6.33.0.123; host: usu2.usu.ru) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kay Sievers wrote: >On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > >>i.e., there is the "modalias" file in sysfs but no $MODALIAS in the >>environment. Is this the problem that your patch solves (note: I haven't >>tried it yet)? >> >> > >Well, you could have read the mail's subject, before posting. > > Indeed, sorry. I have applied your patch on top of gregkh-all-2.6.15.patch and changed my module-loading udev rule to: ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}" Now this works and loads modules for my PS/2 mouse. Thanks for the patch. -- Alexander E. Patrakov