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

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

severity 398962 important
thanks

* Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org) [061127 12:13]:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> udev 0.103-1 works around the problem as follows:
> 
> # this driver is broken and should not be loaded automatically (see #398962)
> SUBSYSTEM=="platform", ENV{MODALIAS}=="i82365", GOTO="hotplug_driver_loaded"
> 
> So at least for the Pegasos marvell gigabit ethernet, the module will still
> load. I don't know if it or other platform modules will still perhaps have
> problems due to this bug.
> 
> 
> Once the new udev reaches testing, I wouldn't consider this bug as RC
> anymore, unless new problems come to light with other platform devices.

      udev |       udev |    0.103-1 |       testing | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

downgrading to important now.


Cheers,
Andi
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