Hello Jonathan, On 09/05/2015 06:31 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 01/09/15 00:09, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> Hello Jonathan, >> >> On 08/22/2015 07:59 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >>> On 20/08/15 08:07, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >>>> The SPI core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "spi:<modalias>" >>>> regardless of the mechanism that was used to register the device >>>> (i.e: OF or board code) and the table that is used later to match >>>> the driver with the device (i.e: SPI id table or OF match table). >>>> >>>> So drivers needs to export the SPI id table and this be built into >>>> the module or udev won't have the necessary information to autoload >>>> the needed driver module when the device is added. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. >>> >>> This is too late for the upcoming merge window so it will be queued up for >>> the next one. >>> >> >> IMHO this patch and "[PATCH 01/18] iio: Export SPI module alias >> information in missing drivers" [0] are fixing broken module >> autoloading which are bugs so are material for the 4.3 -rc cycle. > > It's a corner case. Could also be argued that this isn't > a bug but rather a case of a feature (autoprobing) being added > that wasn't supported before. It's not obligatory to support > autoloading (even if we would normally aim to do so). > > I'm happy enough for a request to apply these to stable occurs > after they hit Linus' tree (as a trivial backport) but I don't > think they really deserve being sent on as fixes. > > Of course, I might be missing something that means something is > actually broken, as opposed to not present. > Well, as a user I would expect that if I have a driver built-in and it works, building it as a module will also work so I think module autoload it's a bugfix and not a new feature. And the patch is trivial and won't cause any issues so I don't see why it can't be -rc material. But of course is up to you, git log shows me that these drivers have been since v3.10 so it seems that nobody cared anyways. > Jonathan > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
