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2005-09-07[PATCH] Adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version stringsAlexey Dobriyan
Tested with 2.12i and 2.13-pre2. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsymsRalf Baechle
Local symbols generated by gcc start with a `$'; no point in including them in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] kallsyms: change compression algorithmPaulo Marques
This patch changes the way the compression algorithm works. The base algorithm is similiar to the previous but we force the compressed token size to 2. Having a fixed size compressed token allows for a lot of optimizations, and that in turn allows this code to run over *all* the symbols faster than it did before over just a subset. Having it work over all the symbols will make it behave better when symbols change positions between passes, and the "inconsistent kallsyms" messages should become less frequent. In my tests the compression ratio was degraded by about 0.5%, but the results will depend greatly on the number of symbols to compress. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-06Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds
2005-09-05[PATCH] kconfig: linux.pot for all archEgry Gabor
The 'make update-po-config' creates the .pot file for the default arch. This patch enhances it with all arch. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] kconfig: kxgettext: EOL fixEgry Gabor
The end of line character doesn't exist on end of help in all case, check it first. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05[PATCH] kconfig: kxgettext: message fixEgry Gabor
The gettext doesn't handle the {CONFIG}:00000 markers as sources. I added a simple comment prefix for them. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-30[PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devicesStephen Rothwell
Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-08-19[SPARC]: Deal with glibc changing macro names in modpost.cBen Colline
GLIBC 2.3.4 and later changed the STT_REGISTER macro to STT_SPARC_REGISTER, so we need to cope with that somehow. Original patch from fabbione, reposted by Ben Collins. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-10[PATCH] kbuild: automatically append a short string to the version based ↵Ryan Anderson
upon the git commit If CONFIG_AUTO_LOCALVERSION is set, the user is using a git-based tree, and the current HEAD is not referred to by any tags in .git/refs/tags/, append -g and the first 8 characters of the commit to the version string. This makes it easier to use git-bisect, and/or to do a daily build, without trampling on your older, working builds, or accidentally setting up conflicting sets of modules. Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] fix gconfig crashJoachim Nilsson
I ran glade-2 on the glade file, fixed two missing stock icons and cleaned up the C code that inserts the single/split/full modes. The rest of the patch is minor cleanups only. I refrained from using all the included xpm icons in images.c (like qconf.cc does) in favour of using the stock Gtk+ icons instead. Oh, yes there was a "back" bug in split mode that I also removed, oh well... It has been tested with success by several people, including Jesper Juhl, Randy Dunlap and myself. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] kconfig: trivial cleanupblaisorblade@yahoo.it
Replace all menu_add_prop mimicking menu_add_prompt with the latter func. I've had to add a return value to menu_add_prompt for one usage. I've rebuilt scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped by hand to reflect changes in the source (I've not the same Bison version so regenerating it wouldn't have been not a good idea), and compared it with what Roman itself did some time ago, and it's the same. So I guess this can be finally merged. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] kbuild: signed char fixes for scriptsJ.A. Magallon
This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;) Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] kbuild: signed/unsigned char fix for make menuconfigKeenan Pepper
Quiet some silly warnings. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27kbuild: fix building external modulesSam Ravnborg
kbuild failed to locate Makefile for external modules. This brought to my attention how the variables for directories have different values in different usage scenarios. Different kbuild usage scenarios: make - plain make in same directory where kernel source lives make O= - kbuild is told to store output files in another directory make M= - building an external module make O= M= - building an external module with kernel output seperate from src Value assigned to the different variables: |$(src) |$(obj) |$(srctree) |$(objtree) make |reldir to k src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to k src make O= |reldir to k src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to output dir make M= |abs path to src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to k src make O= M= |abs path to src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to k output path to kbuild file: make | $(srctree)/$(src), $(src) make O= | $(srctree)/$(src) make M= | $(src) make O= M= | $(src) From the table above it can be seen that the only good way to find the home directory of the kbuild file is to locate the one of the two variants that is an absolute path. If $(src) is an absolute path (starts with /) then use it, otherwise prefix $(src) with $(srctree). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-25kbuild: define clean before including kbuild fileSam Ravnborg
Defining clean before including the kbuild file give us knowledge when the kbuild file is included for cleaning. This is rarey usefull - but in a corner case in klibc this proved necessary. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> ---
2005-07-25kbuild: fix make O=...Sam Ravnborg
kbuild failed to locate Kbuild.include. Teach kbuild how to find Kbuild files when using make O=... Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> ---
2005-07-25kbuild: introduce Kbuild.includeSam Ravnborg
Kbuild.include is a placeholder for definitions originally present in both the top-level Makefile and scripts/Makefile.build. There were a slight difference in the filechk definition, so the most videly used version was kept and usr/Makefile was adopted for this syntax. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> ---
2005-07-25kbuild: drop descend - converting existing usersSam Ravnborg
There was only two users left of descend. Fix them so they use $(clean)= and $(build)=. Drop definition of descend. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> ---
2005-07-21[PATCH] kbuild: make help binrpm-pkg fixCoywolf Qi Hunt
This fixes kbuild make help binrpm-pkg missing `''. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14kbuild: Fix bug in make deb-pkg when using seperate source and output ↵Sam Ravnborg
directories From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> When running "make O=something deb-pkg", I get a failure that claims I haven't configured my kernel (I have). Running it a second time tells me to run "make mrproper" (include/linux/version.h got built on the first run) Original patch from: From: Ajay Patel <patela@gmail.com> With modifications from: Signed-off-By: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14uml: Restore proper descriptions in make deb-pkg targetSam Ravnborg
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> This pulls the description from the Debian user-mode-linux package, and puts $version back in the appropriate places for both descriptions. Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14uml: Make deb-pkg build target build a Debian-style user-mode-linux packageSam Ravnborg
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Make the deb-pkg build target understand the "um" arch and set up the package and directory structure to match a mainline-Debian style user-mode-linux package. This is primarily so that it stops matching, exactly, the naming convention used by normal, non-UML kernels generated by this command. Installing "linux-2.6.11" and "linux-2.6.11", where one is a UML kernel doesn't do the right thing. This fixes that. Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14kbuild: fix buildcheckSam Ravnborg
From: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> I should not have added init.text test here; it's more than useless, it actually degrades the output. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14kbuild: "PREEMPT" in UTS_VERSIONSam Ravnborg
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make preempt kernels easily identifiable. Added SMP PREEMPT as comment in compile.h to force it to be updated when they change (sam). Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14buildcheck: reduce DEBUG_INFO noise from reference* scriptsSam Ravnborg
From: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Reduce noise in 'make buildcheck' that is caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14kbuild: Fix build as root then userSam Ravnborg
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> I inadvertently built a tree as root and then rebuilt it as a user. I got a lot of prompts ... mv: overwrite `drivers/char/drm/drm_auth.o', overriding mode 0644? Using mv -f fixes that. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: don't use uninitialized SRCTREERandy Dunlap
Current kernel-doc (perl) script generates this warning: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at scripts/kernel-doc line 1668. So explicitly check for SRCTREE in the ENV before using it, and then if it is set, append a '/' to the end of it, otherwise the SRCTREE + filename can (will) be missing the intermediate '/'. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.proJeff Mahoney
When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the command line. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] kbuild: restrain output of "make help" to 80 columnsYum Rayan
This patch fixes the output of "make help" to fit in a 80 column screen. Please push upstream as part of your other patches. Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] kbuild: obey HOSTLOADLIBES_programname for single-file compilationMatthias Urlichs
Single-file HOSTCC calls added the libraries from $(HOSTLOADLIBES), but not from $(HOSTLOADLIBES_programname). Multi-file HOSTCC calls do both. This patch fixes that inconsistency. Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] kbuild: add ia64 support to rpm Makefile targetGreg Edwards
On ia64, only the EFI (fat) partition is available to boot from. The rpm needs to install the kernel under /boot/efi to be useable on ia64. Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.proJeff Mahoney
When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the command line. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] kbuild: modpost needs to cope with new glibc elf header on sparcFabio Massimo Di Nitto
Recently a change in the glibc elf.h header has been introduced causing modpost to spawn tons of warnings (like the one below) building the kernel on sparc: [SNIP] *** Warning: "current_thread_info_reg" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined! *** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined! *** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined! [SNIP] Ben Collins discovered that the STT_REGISTERED definition in glibc did change and that this change needs to be propagated to modpost. glibc change: -#define STT_REGISTER 13 /* Global register reserved to app. */ +#define STT_SPARC_REGISTER 13 /* Global register reserved to app. */ I did and tested this simple patch to maintain compatibility with newer (>= 2.3.4) and older (<= 2.3.2) glibc. Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] kbuild: create tarballsJan-Benedict Glaw
It adds tarball packaging, which I prefer for distribution. Also one of the two blanks after @echo is removed. One seems to be enough :) Signed-off-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-06[PATCH] openfirmware: generate device table for userspaceJeff Mahoney
This converts the usage of struct of_match to struct of_device_id, similar to pci_device_id. This allows a device table to be generated, which can be parsed by depmod(8) to generate a map file for module loading. In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to module-init-tools and hotplug must be applied. Those patches are available at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/linux/macio-hotplug/ Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] pcmcia: file2aliasDominik Brodowski
Create PCMCIA entries in modules.alias Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] Kill signed charsJ.A. Magallon
scripts/ is full of mismatches between char* params an signed char* arguments, and viceversa. gcc4 now complaints loud about this. Patch below deletes all those 'signed'. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] mconf.c needs locale.hJean-Christophe Dubois
This is failing on my cross-compilation environment (From a solaris system) using gcc-3.4.1 (as the compiler can't find a prototype for the setlocale() function). Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jdubois@mc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] gconfig: only show scrollbars if neededThierry Vignaud
gconfig: only show scrollbars if needed (which is more user friendly): Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] apply quotation handling to Makefile.buildJan Beulich
Adding quotation handling to rule_cc_o_c in scripts/Makefile.build as used elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] patch-kernel: support non-incremental 2.6.x.y 'stable' patchesRandy.Dunlap
Add better support for (non-incremental) 2.6.x.y patches; If an ending version number if not specified, the script automatically increments the SUBLEVEL (x in 2.6.x.y) until no more patch files are found; however, EXTRAVERSION (y in 2.6.x.y) is never automatically incremented but must be specified fully. patch-kernel does not normally support reverse patching, but does so when applying EXTRAVERSION (x.y) patches, so that moving from 2.6.11.y to 2.6.11.z is easy and handled by the script (reverse 2.6.11.y and apply 2.6.11.z). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.David Woodhouse
The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections so that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually worked out what we're running on today. This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between _[se]text or _[se]inittext. Rather than teaching kallsyms about the various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers for kallsyms. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] Kconfig i18n supportArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
This patch adds i18n support for make *config, allowing users to have the config process in their own language. No printk was harmed in the process, don't worry, so all the bug reports, kernel messages, etc, remain in english, just the user tools to configure the kernel are internationalized. Users not interested in translations can just unset the related LANG, LC_ALL, etc env variables and have the config process in plain english, something like: LANG= make menuconfig is enough for having the whole config process in english. Or just don't install any translation file. Translations for brazilian portuguese are being done by a team of volunteers at: http://www.visionflex.inf.br/kernel_ptbr/pmwiki.php/Principal/Traducoes To start the translation process: make update-po-config This will generate the pot template named scripts/kconfig/linux.pot, copy it to, say, ~/es.po, to start the translation for spanish. To test your translation, as root issue this command: msgfmt -o /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/linux.mo ~/es.po Replace "es" with your language code. Then execute, for instance: make menuconfig The current patch doesn't use any optimization to reduce the size of the generated .mo file, it is possible to use the config option as a key, but this doesn't prevent the current patch from being used or the translations done under the current scheme to be in any way lost if we chose to do any kind of keying. Thanks to Fabricio Vaccari for starting the pt_BR (brazilian portuguese) translation effort, Thiago Maciera for helping me with the gconf.cc (QT frontent) i18n coding and to all the volunteers that are already working on the first translation, to pt_BR. I left the question on whether to ship the translations with the stock kernel sources to be discussed here, please share your suggestions. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files.Martin Waitz
xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex. This is much faster than using jadetex for everything. This patch also reduces the number of kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: use <informalexample> for examplesRich Walker
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: fix <void/> xml tagMartin Waitz
This fix is needed to create valid XML. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentationPavel Pisa
I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our university students again. The documentation could be extended for more sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0 time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well. So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are not too much skewed. I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some #ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc. You can see result of the modified documentation build at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick cleanup work. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] kallsyms C_SYMBOL_PREFIX supportYoshinori Sato
kallsyms does not consider SYMBOL_PREFIX of C. Consequently it does not work on architectures using that prefix character (h8300, v850). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-22[PATCH] USB: scripts/mod/file2alias.c: handle numeric ranges for USB bcdDeviceRoman Kagan
Another attempt at that... The attached patch fixes the longstanding problem with USB bcdDevice numeric ranges incorrectly converted into patterns for MODULE_ALIAS generation. Previously it put both the lower and the upper limits into the pattern, dlXdhY, making it impossible to fnmatch against except for a few special cases, like dl*dh* or dlXdhX. The patch makes it generate multiple MODULE_ALIAS lines covering the whole range with fnmatch-able patterns. E.g. for a range between 0x0001 and 0x8345 it gives the following patterns: 000[1-9] 00[1-9]* 0[1-9]* [1-7]* 8[0-2]* 83[0-3]* 834[0-5] Since bcdDevice is 2 bytes wide = 4 digits in hex representation, the max no. of patters is 2 * 4 - 1 = 7. The values are BCD (binary-coded decimals) and not hex, so patterns using a dash seem to be safe regardless of locale collation order. The patch changes bcdDevice part of the alias from dlXdhY to dZ, but this shouldn't have big compatibility issues because fnmatch()-based modprobing hasn't yet been widely used. Besides, the most common (and almost the only working) case of dl*dh* becomes d* and thus continues to work. The patch is against 2.6.12-rc2, applies to -mm3 with an offset. The matching patch to fix the MODALIAS environment variable now generated by the usb hotplug function follows. Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>