linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sparc64: modalias support for of

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Message-Id: <20070415.220639.41635818.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:06:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kyle@...isc-linux.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: modalias support for of_device

From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...isc-linux.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:19:33 -0400

> Quick patch to add modalias support for of_device to arch/sparc64 so
> sbus drivers can be automatically loaded (I hope :)
> 
> Untested, as I'm sparc-less at the moment.

Thanks Kyle.

How does this work?  Does some program walk through sysfs
scanning the attributes of devices, and this triggers
module matching?
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