udev & modalias files

Muni Sekhar munisekharrms at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 09:32:54 EDT 2016


On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I see lot of modalias files under /sys directory.
>>
>> For e.g:
>>
>> # cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/modalias
>>
>> pci:v00001556d00005555sv00004000sd00000000bc08sc05i01
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to know which part of the kernel module creates sysfs
>> modalias file?
>
> lots of different places.  Do a "git grep modalias drivers/" to see many
> of them. That particular file is created by drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
>
>
>
> Bjørn

Thanks Greg & Bjørn.


-- 
Thanks,
Sekhar



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