On 01/09/15 00:09, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > On 08/22/2015 07:59 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> On 20/08/15 08:07, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >>> The SPI core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "spi:<modalias>" >>> regardless of the mechanism that was used to register the device >>> (i.e: OF or board code) and the table that is used later to match >>> the driver with the device (i.e: SPI id table or OF match table). >>> >>> So drivers needs to export the SPI id table and this be built into >>> the module or udev won't have the necessary information to autoload >>> the needed driver module when the device is added. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com> >> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. >> >> This is too late for the upcoming merge window so it will be queued up for >> the next one. >> > > IMHO this patch and "[PATCH 01/18] iio: Export SPI module alias > information in missing drivers" [0] are fixing broken module > autoloading which are bugs so are material for the 4.3 -rc cycle.
It's a corner case. Could also be argued that this isn't a bug but rather a case of a feature (autoprobing) being added that wasn't supported before. It's not obligatory to support autoloading (even if we would normally aim to do so). I'm happy enough for a request to apply these to stable occurs after they hit Linus' tree (as a trivial backport) but I don't think they really deserve being sent on as fixes. Of course, I might be missing something that means something is actually broken, as opposed to not present. Jonathan > >> Thanks, >> >> Jonathan > > [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/20/111 > > Best regards, > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
