linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:22:06 -0400
From:	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@...y.org) said: 
> Ah, ok, makes sense. Yeah, that weird "platform devices loads itself by
> the name" thing got disabled in the platform subsystem. It caused
> modprobe loops for other devices.
> 
> The whole idea of issuing MODALIAS with plain module names instead of
> aliases can't really work, but the platform maintainer didn't like to
> use the usual aliases and the matches in the modules, for a reason I
> didn't understand while we talked about the problem last time.

So, the solution is for the platform device to issue a random modalias
that pcskpr exports?

Bill
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