On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:55:49AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 09:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:54:04PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have written a driver for xD card reader and xD/SmartMedia FTL that is > > > usually mandatory to use with xD cards. > > > > > > I think this can be added to 80-drivers.rule > > > SUBSYSTEM=="mtd", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe sm_ftl" > > > > Why does this module not have the proper MODULE_DEVICE() or aliases in > > it so that you don't have to manually load the module? This should not > > need to be a udev rule. > > Well mtd system is not using bus model. Why not? It should be fixed to do so. > However a card needs to be probed (theoteticly) by several high-level > FTL drivers to make one of them to bind to it. (In fact several can bind > at same now, which is both bad and good feature). Then why would you write a rule to automatically load the module on the system no matter what? > I understand that module can have aliases so it can bind to a bus. module aliases are used by modprobe to know what module to load when a device is found on a bus. > Of course I can do a 'request_module', but I think it isn't nice thing > to do. Agreed. But as it looks like you always want this module loaded, why not just make it part of your mtd core? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
