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    [ARM] 4875/1: Add MODULE_ALIAS to ixp4xx-beeper module · 1035d60d
    Gordon Farquharson authored
    The following patch allows ixp4xx-beeper to be loaded by udev
    automatically when compiled as a module with kernel versions 2.4.24
    and greater. This patch is required because commit
    43cc71ee adds "platform:" to the
    modalias string.
    
    LKG7102D7:~# udevinfo -a -p /sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx-beeper.4
    
     looking at device '/devices/platform/ixp4xx-beeper.4':
     KERNEL=="ixp4xx-beeper.4"
     SUBSYSTEM=="platform"
     DRIVER==""
     ATTR{modalias}=="platform:ixp4xx-beeper"
    
    udev therefore tries to modprobe platform:ixp4xx-beeper instead of
    ixp4xx-beeper.
    
    LKG7102D7:~# udevtest /sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx-beeper.4
    ...
    import_uevent_var: import into environment: 'PHYSDEVBUS=platform'
    import_uevent_var: import into environment: 'MODALIAS=platform:ixp4xx-beeper'
    main: looking at device '/devices/platform/ixp4xx-beeper.4' from
    subsystem 'platform'
    wait_for_sysfs: file '/sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx-beeper.4/bus'
    appeared after 0 loops
    main: run: 'socket:/org/kernel/udev/monitor'
    main: run: '/sbin/modprobe --use-blacklist platform:ixp4xx-beeper'
    
    With this patch, depmod adds an alias line (see below) to
    modules.alias which allows modprobe to load the right module.
    
    modules.alias:
    alias platform:ixp4xx-beeper ixp4xx-beeper
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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