From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Aleksey S. Kazantsev" <ioctl@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dsa: mv88e6352/mv88e6xxx: Add support for Marvell 88E6320 and 88E6321
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:26:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150709182625.GB788@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436432003.20619.102.camel@tiscali.nl>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:53:23AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On di, 2015-07-07 at 20:38 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6352.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6352.c
>
> > -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6352");
> > MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6172");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6176");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6320");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6321");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6352");
>
> Naive question: there are quite a few similar MODULE_ALIAS() macros in
> drivers/net/dsa. That is, macros using "platform:mv88e6[...]". But I
> couldn't find the struct platform_device's that would, in short, fire
> off the corresponding "MODALIAS=platform:mv88e6[...]" uevent when
> they're created. Where should I look for those struct platform_device's?
>
Good question. The devices are instantiated from the dsa driver
(net/dsa/dsa.c). I don't really know if the above aliases serve
a practical purpose. Does anyone else know ?
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 3:38 Guenter Roeck
2015-07-08 14:52 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-07-08 15:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-07-09 21:37 ` David Miller
2015-07-09 8:53 ` Paul Bolle
2015-07-09 18:26 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2015-07-09 21:37 ` David Miller
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