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Bug#398962: [2.6.18] Platform devices incorrectly provide $MODALIAS?



Hi,

In Debian we are currently seeing some problems with drivers that are 
repeatedly loaded unsuccessfully:
kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
FATAL: Error inserting i82365: no such device
kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
[...]

According to Marco d'Itri this could be because "platform devices in 
recent kernels provide $MODALIAS while they should not. So udev will 
always try loading again the driver after it has been loaded."

He has suggested working around this by excluding loading drivers for 
platform devices in udev. However, Sven Luther noted that e.g. the 
Pegasos marvell gigabit ethernet port is a platform device for which the 
driver should be loaded.

Can anyone shed some light on this and suggest a solution?

See http://bugs.debian.org/398962 for details.

Thanks in advance,
Frans Pop

P.S. Please keep the debian BTS CCed on replies.

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