On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:50:04AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 09:02 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:16:34PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > This adds the logic to convert the virtio ids into module aliases, and > > > includes a modalias entry in sysfs. > > > > > > Unfortunately this does not seem sufficient to have the module > > > autoprobed at startup on my Ubuntu system. Greg? Am I missing some > > > udev magic? > > > > You also need to pass the MODINFO environment variable to the hotplug > > call so that udev can pick it up. > > > > hope this helps, > > Well, I finally decoded this as follows: > > You need to implement the bus_type.uevent hook, and use > add_uevent_var() to add a "MODALIAS=virtio:..." var. See > drivers/pci/hotplug.c. Ah, sorry, thanks for intrepreting it properly :) > Not sure why I need the modalias here when it's in sysfs. But, it > works. udev does not read from sysfs anymore, it just uses the environment variables. It's faster and race-free that way. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
