Re: [RFC][PATCH] module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 08:09:55PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Commit 78551277e4df5: "Input: i8042 - add PNP modaliases" had a bug, where the
> second call to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() overrode the first resulting in not all
> the modaliases being exposed.
> 
> This fixes the problem by including the name of the device_id table in the
> __mod_*_device_table alias, allowing us to export several device_id tables
> per module.
> 
> Suggested-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> ---
>  include/linux/module.h   |  2 +-
>  scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 14 +++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Ah, very nice, I've wanted this for a while now, it would make a number
of different drivers much smaller and simpler to add new device ids to
(no multiple lists of ids, one for the module loader and one for the
sub-driver that is in the single file.)

If this doesn't break any userspace tools, I have no objection to it at
all:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>