On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:07:16AM +0200, 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. > > But this means that OF-only drivers needs to have both OF and SPI id > tables that have to be kept in sync and also the dev node compatible > manufacturer prefix is stripped when reporting the MODALIAS. Which can > lead to issues if two vendors use the same SPI device name for example. > > To avoid the above, the SPI core behavior may be changed in the future > to not require an SPI device table for OF-only drivers and report the > OF module alias. So, it's better to also export the OF table even when > is unused now to prevent breaking module loading when the core changes. > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com>
I appreciate the context for the whole problem here, but this commit subject mostly doesn't apply to this driver, and it deson't seem to match the problem this is solving. As I see it, the patch description for this patch should be more like: "The OF ID table is used for auto-probing the device, but it is not exported to the module device table. That means this driver won't autoload when built as a module. Export the OF ID table to fix that. (insert some reference to the larger issue here)" Do you want to rewrite the message, shall I just prepend my modifications, or am I off-base? > --- > > drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c > b/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c > index 0099aba72a8b..df6f61137376 100644 > --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c > +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c > @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id dataflash_dt_ids[] = { > { .compatible = "atmel,dataflash", }, > { /* sentinel */ } > }; > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, dataflash_dt_ids); > #endif > > /* ......................................................................... > */ For the patch: Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <computersforpe...@gmail.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/