Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio module alias support

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:11:15PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:57 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:50:04AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Should I leave the modalias entry in sysfs for back compat, or not?
> This will be for >= 2.6.24 only...

No, leave it in sysfs, other tools use it (like older versions of udev).

thanks,

greg k-h
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