Re: [PATCH] i2c: Fix modalias for ACPI enumerated I2C devices

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+Rafael

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 05:17:49PM +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> There is a minor fault about ACPI enumerated I2C devices with their modalias
> attribute. Now modalias is set by device instance not by hardware ID.
> For example "i2c:INTABCD:00", "i2c:INTABCD:01" etc.

I think that this is intentional. We don't want that the i2c modalias
matches with the ACPI device (like with the i2c:INTABCD). Instead use ACPI
IDs that are added to the driver to match with the ACPI device.

> This means each device instance gets different modalias which does match
> with generated modules.alias. Currently this is not problem as matching can
> happen also with "acpi:INTABCD" modalias.
> 
> Fix this by using ACPI hardware ID.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Generated on top of v3.12-rc4-29-g0e7a3ed.
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> index 29d3f04..6dd0c53 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ static acpi_status acpi_i2c_add_device(acpi_handle handle, u32 level,
>  	if (ret < 0 || !info.addr)
>  		return AE_OK;
>  
> -	strlcpy(info.type, dev_name(&adev->dev), sizeof(info.type));
> +	strlcpy(info.type, acpi_device_hid(adev), sizeof(info.type));
>  	if (!i2c_new_device(adapter, &info)) {
>  		dev_err(&adapter->dev,
>  			"failed to add I2C device %s from ACPI\n",
> -- 
> 1.8.4.rc3
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