On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 09:35:17AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Javier, > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:18:25PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Short version: > > > > This series add the missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() for OF and I2C tables > > to export that information so modules have the correct aliases built-in > > and autoloading works correctly. > > > > Longer version: > > > > Currently it's mandatory for I2C drivers to have an I2C device ID table > > regardless if the device was registered using platform data or OF. This > > is because the I2C core needs an I2C device ID table for two reasons: > > > > 1) Match the I2C client with a I2C device ID so a struct i2c_device_id > > is passed to the I2C driver probe() function. > > > > 2) Export the module aliases from the I2C device ID table so userspace > > can auto-load the correct module. This is because i2c_device_uevent > > always reports a MODALIAS of the form i2c:<client->name>. > > Why are we not fixing this? We emit specially carved uevent for > ACPI-based devices, why not the same for OF? Platform bus does this... Ah, now I see the 27/27 patch. I think it is exactly what we need. And probably for SPI bus as well. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
