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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ACPI / device_sysfs: Use OF_MODALIAS for "compatible" modalias
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:41:59AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:41:48PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:27 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:15:13PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > Who will use OF_MODALIAS and where have you documented it?
> >
> > After this lands in mainline, I'll modify the pull request for systemd
> > to add a new rule for OF_MODALIAS.
> > I'll modify the comment on the function to document the change.
>
> I'm wondering why to have two fixes in two places instead of fixing udev to
> understand multiple MODALIAS= events?

It's not a matter of multiple events, it's a single event with a
key/value pair with duplicate keys and different values.

What is this event with different values supposed to be doing in
userspace? Do you want multiple invocations of `modprobe` or something
else?

Usually a "device" only has a single "signature" that modprobe uses to
look up the correct module for. Modules can support any number of
device signatures, but traditionally it is odd to think that a device
itself can be supported by multiple modules, which is what you are
saying is happening here.

So what should userspace do with this, and why does a device need to
have multiple module alias signatures?

thanks,

greg k-h

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