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>. Lee Jones posted a patch series [0] to solve 1) by allowing the I2C drivers to have a probe() function that does not get a i2c_device_id. The problem is that his series didn't take into account 2) so if that was merged and the I2C ID table is removed from all the drivers that don't needed it, module auto-loading will break for those. But even now there are many I2C drivers were module auto-loading is not working because of the fact that the I2C core always reports the MODALIAS as i2c:<client->name> and many developers didn't expect this. I've identified I2C drivers with 3 types of different issues: a) Those that have an i2c_table but are not exported. The match works and the correct i2c_device_id is passed on probe but since the ID table is not exported, module auto-load won't work. b) Those that have a of_table but are not exported. This is currently not an issue since even when the of_table is used to match the dev with the driver, an OF modalias is not reported by the I2C core. But if the I2C core is changed to report the MODALIAS of the form of:N*T*C as it's made by other subsystems, then module auto-load will break for these drivers. c) Those that don't have a of_table but should since are OF drivers with DT bindings doc for them. Since the I2C core does not report a OF modalias and since i2c_device_match() fallbacks to match the device part of the compatible string with the I2C device ID table, many OF drivers don't have an of_table to match. After all having a I2C device ID table is mandatory so it works without a of_table. So, in order to not make mandatory to have a I2C device ID table, at least a) and b) needs to be addressed, this series does that. c) should be fixed too since it seems wrong that a driver with a DT binding document, does not have a OF table and export it to modules. Also stripping the vendor part from the compatible string to match with the I2C devices ID table and reporting only the device name to user-space doesn't seem to be correct. I've identified at least two drivers that have the same name on their I2C device ID table so the manufacturer prefix is important. But I've not tried to fix c) yet since that is not so easy to automate due drivers not having all the information (i.e: the device name can match a documented compatible string device part but without the vendor prefix is hard to tell). I split the changes so the patches in this series are independent and can be picked individually by subsystem maintainers. Patch #27 changes the logic of i2c_device_uevent() to report an OF modalias if the device was registered using OF. But this patch is included in the series only as an RFC for illustration purposes since changing that without fixing c) will break module auto-loading for the drivers of devices registered with OF but that don't have a of_match_table. Although arguably, those drivers were relying on the assumption that a MODALIAS=i2c:<foo> would always be reported even for the OF case which is not the true on other subsystems. [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/283 Best regards, Javier Javier Martinez Canillas (27): mfd: stw481x: Export I2C module alias information spi: xcomm: Export I2C module alias information iio: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers [media] Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers macintosh: therm_windtunnel: Export I2C module alias information misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers Input: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers power: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers i2c: core: Export I2C module alias information in dummy driver backlight: tosa: Export I2C module alias information [media] staging: media: lirc: Export I2C module alias information usb: phy: isp1301: Export I2C module alias information ALSA: ppc: keywest: Export I2C module alias information hwmon: (nct7904) Export I2C module alias information regulator: fan53555: Export I2C module alias information mfd: Export OF module alias information in missing drivers iio: Export OF module alias information in missing drivers hwmon: (g762) Export OF module alias information extcon: Export OF module alias information in missing drivers ASoC: Export OF module alias information in missing codec drivers rtc: Export OF module alias information in missing drivers macintosh: therm_windtunnel: Export OF module alias information leds: Export OF module alias information in missing drivers [media] smiapp: Export OF module alias information Input: touchscreen - Export OF module alias information regulator: isl9305: Export OF module alias information i2c: (RFC, don't apply) report OF style modalias when probing using DT drivers/extcon/extcon-rt8973a.c | 1 + drivers/extcon/extcon-sm5502.c | 1 + drivers/hwmon/g762.c | 1 + drivers/hwmon/nct7904.c | 1 + drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 9 +++++++++ drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c | 1 + drivers/iio/accel/stk8312.c | 1 + drivers/iio/accel/stk8ba50.c | 1 + drivers/iio/light/cm32181.c | 1 + drivers/iio/light/cm3232.c | 1 + drivers/iio/light/cm36651.c | 1 + drivers/iio/light/gp2ap020a00f.c | 1 + drivers/iio/light/stk3310.c | 1 + drivers/input/misc/gp2ap002a00f.c | 1 + drivers/input/touchscreen/egalax_ts.c | 1 + drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c | 1 + drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c | 1 + drivers/leds/leds-pca963x.c | 1 + drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c | 1 + drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c | 2 ++ drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c | 1 + drivers/media/i2c/s5k6a3.c | 1 + drivers/media/i2c/smiapp/smiapp-core.c | 1 + drivers/mfd/rt5033.c | 1 + drivers/mfd/stw481x.c | 1 + drivers/mfd/tps65217.c | 1 + drivers/mfd/tps65218.c | 1 + drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom.c | 1 + drivers/misc/eeprom/max6875.c | 1 + drivers/power/bq24190_charger.c | 1 + drivers/power/rt5033_battery.c | 2 +- drivers/regulator/fan53555.c | 1 + drivers/regulator/isl9305.c | 1 + drivers/rtc/rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c | 1 + drivers/rtc/rtc-isl12022.c | 1 + drivers/rtc/rtc-isl12057.c | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-xcomm.c | 1 + drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c | 1 + drivers/usb/phy/phy-isp1301.c | 1 + drivers/video/backlight/tosa_bl.c | 1 + sound/ppc/keywest.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/da9055.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/wm8510.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/wm8523.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/wm8580.c | 1 + 45 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
