Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | udev: New default rule for autoloading kernel modules matching CPU modalias | Date | Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:56:54 +0200 |
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Hi Kay,
After a recent change present in 3.11-rc1 there is a driver, called processor, that can be bound to the CPU devices whose sysfs directories are located under /sys/devices/system/cpu/. A side effect of this is that, after the driver has been bound to those devices, the kernel adds DRIVER=processor to ENV for CPU uevents and they don't match the default rule for autoloading modules matching MODALIAS:
DRIVER!="?*", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", IMPORT{builtin}="kmod load $env{MODALIAS}"
any more. However, there are some modules whose module aliases match specific CPU features through the modalias string and those modules should be loaded automatically if a compatible CPU is present. Yet, with the processor driver bound to the CPU devices the above rule is not sufficient for that, so we need a new default udev rule allowing those modules to be autoloaded even if the CPU devices have drivers.
On my test systems I added the following rule for that:
ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", IMPORT{builtin}="kmod load $env{MODALIAS}"
in a separate file, but I'm not a udev expert, so I guess it may be done in a better way.
Can you please consider adding such a rule to the default set of udev rules?
Rafael
-- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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