Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751420AbaJAL7L (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 07:59:11 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:28293 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751062AbaJAL7H (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 07:59:07 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,632,1406617200"; d="scan'208";a="599261547" Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:59:01 +0300 From: Mika Westerberg To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot , Dmitry Torokhov , Bryan Wu , Lee Jones , Grant Likely , Aaron Lu , Darren Hart Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/15] leds: leds-gpio: Add ACPI probing support Message-ID: <20141001115901.GD1786@lahna.fi.intel.com> References: <1410868367-11056-1-git-send-email-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> <2780318.hxubhI9Rvq@wuerfel> <20141001091309.GY1786@lahna.fi.intel.com> <5364565.aEcZqpzdLW@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5364565.aEcZqpzdLW@wuerfel> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 12:01:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2014 12:13:09 Mika Westerberg wrote: > > > > > Regarding the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, I suspect the above won't work the > > > way you are hoping for, because once you get to dozens or hundreds of > > > drivers doing this, each device will show up with the same string, > > > so udev will try to load all the modules that list "PRP0001". That > > > doesn't look right. With the code from patch 3, you can probably drop > > > the acpi MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() entirely and get the correct behavior. > > > > It actually works like this now: > > > > # cd /sys/bus/platform/devices/PRP0001\:00/ > > DRIVER=leds-gpio > > MODALIAS=of:Nprp0001TacpiCgpio-leds > > > > # cat modalias > > of:Nprp0001TacpiCgpio-leds > > > > In other words the modalias changes to be of:Nprp0001Tacpi, e.g > > name=prp0001, type=acpi and then list of compatible values. > > > > Udev then loads only module that matches the modalias so it should not > > load everything listing PRP0001 in their MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). > > I'm not completely following yet. I can see how this works now, but > how is this better than just using the existing modalias for OF? You mean using just what of_device_get_modalias() would create? In that case, what do we put to name and type fields? -- 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/