Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752063AbaAQHiD (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:38:03 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:30249 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbaAQHiA (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:38:00 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,670,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="440272514" Message-ID: <52D8DDD4.10704@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:37:56 +0200 From: Jarkko Nikula User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: Zhang Rui , Wolfram Sang , 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, mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com, grant.likely@secretlab.ca Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices References: <1389689198-2641-1-git-send-email-rui.zhang@intel.com> <1389689198-2641-4-git-send-email-rui.zhang@intel.com> <20140116122704.GD2617@katana> <1389877509.3010.15.camel@rzhang1-mobl4> <20140116194651.GO17314@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140116194651.GO17314@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/16/2014 09:46 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > 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: >> 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. Sidenote: actually this modalias/module loading issue is different and not related to stable ACPI i2c/spi slave device names. -- Jarkko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/