2006-05-01 21:05:07

by David Brownell

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Subject: [patch 2.6.17-rc3] smsc-ircc2, minimal PNP hotplug support

An old laptop now behaves more sanely.


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2006-05-01 21:10:57

by Jean Tourrilhes

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Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.17-rc3] smsc-ircc2, minimal PNP hotplug support

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:13:43PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> An old laptop now behaves more sanely.

> Minimal PNP hotplug support for the smsc-ircc2 driver. A modular driver
> will be modprobed via hotplug, but still bypasses driver model probing.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[email protected]>

Hi,

Samuel Ortiz <[email protected]> is now in charge of IrDA.
Thanks...

Jean

> Index: linux/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c 2006-04-23 23:23:38.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c 2006-04-28 21:42:14.000000000 -0700
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
> #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
> #include <linux/serial_reg.h>
> #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
> +#include <linux/pnp.h>
> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>
> #include <asm/io.h>
> @@ -358,6 +360,16 @@
> iobase + IRCC_MASTER);
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PNP
> +/* PNP hotplug support */
> +static const struct pnp_device_id smsc_ircc_pnp_table[] = {
> + { .id = "SMCf010", .driver_data = 0 },
> + /* and presumably others */
> + { }
> +};
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pnp, smsc_ircc_pnp_table);
> +#endif
> +
>
> /*******************************************************************************
> *
> @@ -2072,7 +2084,8 @@
>
> /* PROBING
> *
> - *
> + * REVISIT we can be told about the device by PNP, and should use that info
> + * instead of probing hardware and creating a platform_device ...
> */
>
> static int __init smsc_ircc_look_for_chips(void)