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... Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
