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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:59:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Andreas Jellinghaus [c]" <aj@...hirelabs.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	<linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel
 events? [u]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote:

> Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieben Sie:
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote:
> > > I need some kernel event that has both DEVICE and MODALIAS set.
> > > up to including kernel 2.6.21 this seems to come from
> > > drivers/usb/core/driver.c if I read the code correctly, and then
> > > it was removed.
> > >
> > > udevmonitor --kernel --environment shows one event with both on 2.6.21
> > > plain, but not on 2.6.22 plain.
> >
> > Does this patch improve matters?
> 
> yes, thanks, it does. can you add PRODUCT as well?
> remembered too late that my scripts at least use it too.
> but that one is no big issue, MODALIAS has the same information
> so I could use that information. but other people might use it.

I could, but I don't know whether any of this would be accepted for 
2.6.22.stable.  It might not be too late to get into 2.6.23...

Alan Stern

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