[RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading

Andi Kleen ak at linux.intel.com
Thu Nov 7 17:30:46 EST 2013


> - the module aliases host tool has no arch specific dependencies at
> all except having x86cpu as one of the entries: would you mind
> dropping the x86 prefix there? Or rather add dependencies on $ARCH?
> (If we drop it there, we basically end up with 'cpu:' everywhere)

Should be fine.

> - in the vendor/family/model case, it may be preferable to drop these
> fields entirely from certain modules' aliases if they match on 'any'
> (provided that the module tools permit this) rather than add
> architecture, variant, revision, etc  fields for all architectures if
> they can only ever match on one

The module tools require everything matching with the same wild cards.

So I don't know how "any" would work.

-Andi



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