Re: [PATCH] sparc64: modalias support for of_device

[Kyle McMartin]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:06:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> How does this work?  Does some program walk through sysfs
> scanning the attributes of devices, and this triggers
> module matching?
>

As I understand it, the sysfs code will send a modalias event that
udev picks up. When depmod runs over the modules, it will generate a
device table (modules.ofmap) that udev will inspect to figure out which
module to load for the given of_device_id.

Cheers,
	Kyle M.
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