On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 03:18:17PM +0100, Joao Martins wrote: > Hey Laine, > > On 23/08/2022 15:11, Laine Stump wrote: > > ping. > > > > I have a different version of this patch where I do read the modules.alias file > > rather than just checking the name of the driver, but that also requires "double > > mocking" open() in the unit test, which wasn't working properly, and I'd rather > > not spend the time figuring it out if it's not going to be needed. (Alex prefers > > that version because it is more correct than just checking the name, and he's > > concerned that the new sysfs-based API may take longer than we're thinking to > > get into downstream distros, but the version in this patch does satisfy both > > Jason and Daniel's suggested implementations). Anyway, I can post the other > > patch if anyone is interested. > > > [sorry for the thread necromancy] > > I was wondering if you're planning on respinning this work, or rather the > modalias approach alternative you mention? Or perhaps we are waiting for the > cdev sysfs? Though, there's still a significant amount of kernel versions to > cover that won't have the sysfs entry sadly :( The cdev sysfs has been merged to the kernel now Jason
