[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

Frank Griffin ftg at roadrunner.com
Wed Mar 20 20:50:06 CET 2013


On 03/20/2013 01:33 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> That's because modules.alias enables to match through wildchars.
>
> eg for ehci (see either /sbin/modinfo ehci_pci or
> "fgrep ehci /lib/modules/3.8.3-desktop-2.mga3/modules.alias"):
>
> alias pci:v0000104Ad0000CC00sv*sd*bc*sc*i* ehci_pci
> alias pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc0Csc03i20* ehci_pci
>
> That means that ehci matches both:
> - 0x104A 0xCC00 (probably a device that reports a broken/bogus class)
> - any PCI device whose class is PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_USB_EHCI
>
> Note that for this one:
> - lsmod reports ehci_pci
> - modinfo reports the real fs path: ehci-pci
> - lspci -vvk reports: ehci-pci
>
I understand.  It is the kernel itself (and associated tools) that mix 
and match underscore and dash.  Hence the need for a conversion patch.


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