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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com,
	grant.likely@linaro.org, jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com,
	mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com, grant.likely@secretlab.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:46:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140116194651.GO17314@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389877509.3010.15.camel@rzhang1-mobl4>

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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:05:09PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 13:27 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> > I wonder why we don't have/need that with CONFIG_OF? Because probably
> > nobody is using modules with i2c devices there?

> This seems a gap to me but I'm not 100% sure.
> I saw Grant Likely introduced the OF style MODALIAS to platform bus, and
> OF style registration/binding to i2c bus, maybe he has an answer for
> this.

This is needed for ACPI because we rewrite the device names to give us
stable names.  With OF for I2C and SPI nothing bus specific is done that 
affects this stuff so the default behaviour works.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-16 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14  8:46 [PATCH 0/4] module autoloading fixes Zhang Rui
2014-01-14  8:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling Zhang Rui
2014-01-15 15:02   ` Mika Westerberg
2014-01-14  8:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices Zhang Rui
2014-01-14  8:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading " Zhang Rui
2014-01-15 15:08   ` Mika Westerberg
2014-01-16  8:04     ` Zhang Rui
2014-01-17  1:28       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-17  1:56         ` Zhang Rui
2014-01-16 12:27   ` Wolfram Sang
2014-01-16 13:05     ` Zhang Rui
2014-01-16 19:46       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-01-17  7:37         ` Jarkko Nikula
2014-01-17 15:57           ` Mark Brown
2014-01-20  7:10             ` Jarkko Nikula
2014-01-16 12:28   ` Mark Brown
2014-01-16 12:51     ` Zhang Rui
2014-01-16 19:24     ` Wolfram Sang
2014-01-14  8:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] OF: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus Zhang Rui
2014-01-15 13:45   ` Rob Herring
2014-01-16  1:09     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-16  7:04     ` Zhang, Rui
2014-01-16 21:21       ` Rob Herring
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-13 13:48 [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices Zhang Rui
2014-01-13 17:35 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-14  8:00   ` Zhang Rui
2014-01-14 14:41     ` Mark Brown
2014-01-15  1:16       ` Zhang Rui

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