Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753565AbbFRHkx (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 03:40:53 -0400 Received: from demumfd001.nsn-inter.net ([93.183.12.32]:49438 "EHLO demumfd001.nsn-inter.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753261AbbFRHkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 03:40:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg To: ext Paul Bolle References: <1434475692-4611-1-git-send-email-yorksun@freescale.com> <1434531244.2069.111.camel@x220> <55818BAB.5090605@nokia.com> <1434556990.2400.16.camel@x220> Cc: York Sun , wsa@the-dreams.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Peter Korsgaard From: Alexander Sverdlin Message-ID: <558275F1.5020100@nokia.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:40:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1434556990.2400.16.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Categorized by eleven eXpurgate (R) http://www.eleven.de X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean (visit http://www.eleven.de for further information) X-purgate-size: 615 X-purgate-ID: 151667::1434613235-000073D1-D5B902CC/0/0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 21 Hi! On 17/06/15 18:03, ext Paul Bolle wrote: >> You do not see the platform_device, because there are no users yet, put >> > this MODULE_ALIAS() is perfectly fine, it will allow automatic module loading >> > in non-DT case. > Do you mean that it will allow automatic module loading once the patch > that adds a struct platform_device with a "i2c-mux-reg" name lands? Any platform code which will register the platform_device will trigger uevent and udevd will be able to find the module with this macro. This is a legacy alternative to device-tree approach. -- Best regards, Alexander Sverdlin. -- 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/