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

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:32:20 -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>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@...y.org) said: 
> It doesn't have any aliases, so seems it was never autoloaded.

It was - prior kernels loaded it via the uevent generated from 
/devices/platform/pcspkr. Newer kernels seem to never actually
trigger a uevent from that (tested with a combination of
udevmonitor and 'udevtrigger --subsystem-match=platform'.)

Bill
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