linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.8 broken for MacBookAir5,1

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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:38:26 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Otavio Salvador <otavio@...ystems.com.br>
cc:	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.8 broken for MacBookAir5,1

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> >> I thought the ehci-pci module would be load for every ehci PCI; What
> >> do you think?
> >
> > The kernel can't guarantee anything about what driver modules are
> > loaded.  That's up to userspace.  In particular, the initramfs image
> > must be set up properly (if that is where these modules are loaded
> > from).
> 
> But why kernel cannot load it if we have a PCI subsystem? Or do you
> think my initrd did not put the module on the initramfs image?

That's exactly what I think.  See this message and the corresponding 
thread:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=136074995914335&w=2

Alan Stern

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