On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 02:57:57PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> There is a missmatch between the way file2alias generates the modalias
> and the way the pci driver generates it.
>
> Some implementations of modprobe will fail to load the driver for a pci
> device automatically when the pci interface is defined on the driver. As
> one will be in uppercase and the other in lowercase.
>
> Fortunatelly not many drivers define this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.riba...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> index 9ff0a90..76ef791 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev, struct
> device_attribute *attr,
> {
> struct pci_dev *pci_dev = to_pci_dev(dev);
>
> - return sprintf(buf, "pci:v%08Xd%08Xsv%08Xsd%08Xbc%02Xsc%02Xi%02x\n",
> + return sprintf(buf, "pci:v%08Xd%08Xsv%08Xsd%08Xbc%02Xsc%02Xi%02X\n",
> pci_dev->vendor, pci_dev->device,
> pci_dev->subsystem_vendor, pci_dev->subsystem_device,
> (u8)(pci_dev->class >> 16), (u8)(pci_dev->class >> 8),
As said in the other thread about this issue, no, this code has been
here for over 9 years just fine. Please fix your userspace code that is
trying to compare hex values as a string and not a numeric value, that
is the stuff that is wrong, not the kernel.
thanks,
greg k-h
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