On 11/20/2012 8:19 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
What if instead we added something like OF_ALIASES to the uevent attribute? Then userspace would have access to all the aliases for a device. Heck, even a shell script can parse the uevent attribute. There is also precedence for exporting OF data using a uevent. This is from the versatile device tree support: # cat /sys/devices/amba.0/uevent OF_NAME=amba OF_FULLNAME=/amba OF_COMPATIBLE_0=arm,amba-bus OF_COMPATIBLE_N=1 MODALIAS=of:NambaT<NULL>Carm,amba-bus
This sounds like a good idea. I have just sent out a new patch to do this. I followed the OF_COMPATIBLE uevent convention for listing the aliases, but I can follow another convention if someone objects.
Steve -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
