Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:56:12 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 22/31] i2c: Auto-load i2c_dev module when device opened. |
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Scott,
Your clock is off by a significant number of days, isn't it?
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:41:51 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > The i2c_dev module is missing the char-major-89-* alias that would cause > it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This patch > adds the alias.
Why not, however this is pretty pointless nowadays as /dev nodes tend to be created dynamically by udev, so there is no way i2c-dev will auto-load.
> Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com> > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> > --- > drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c > index 7e13d2d..f3f83ba 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c > @@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> and " > "Simon G. Vogl <simon@tk.uni-linz.ac.at>"); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("I2C /dev entries driver"); > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > +MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(I2C_MAJOR); > > module_init(i2c_dev_init); > module_exit(i2c_dev_exit);
-- Jean Delvare
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