On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:18 +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote: > On 10/14/2013 12:23 PM, Zhang Rui wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 17:17 +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. > >> > >> 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. > >> > > IMO, this is not the proper fix for the modalias problem because ACPI > > enumerated I2C device may have compatible ids. > > Instead, we should export all the compatible ids as the modules alias of > > the ACPI enumerated I2C device. > > > > can you please take a look at the patch I sent out earlier? > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3034991/ > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3035041/ > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3035021/ > I see. This makes sense as it avoids that same device has two different > modaliases from both acpi and other subsystem. > > How about modalias nodes in sysfs, should they also reflect what is > matching uvent? > good catch, will fix "modalias" as well in next version. thanks, rui -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
