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SubjectRe: i2c: core: report OF style module alias for devices registered via OF
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 22:40:50 +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@redhat.com> wrote:

> The buses should honor the firmware interface used to register the device,
> but the I2C core reports a MODALIAS of the form i2c:<device> even for I2C
> devices registered via OF.
>
> This means that user-space will never get an OF stype uevent MODALIAS even
> when the drivers modules contain aliases exported from both the I2C and OF
> device ID tables. For example, an Atmel maXTouch Touchscreen registered by
> a DT node with compatible "atmel,maxtouch" has the following module alias:
>
> $ cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-8/8-004b/modalias
> i2c:maxtouch
>
> So udev won't be able to auto-load a module for an OF-only device driver.
> Many OF-only drivers duplicate the OF device ID table entries in an I2C ID
> table only has a workaround for how the I2C core reports the module alias.
>
> This patch changes the I2C core to report an OF related MODALIAS uevent if
> the device was registered via OF. So for the previous example, after this
> patch, the reported MODALIAS for the Atmel maXTouch will be the following:
>
> $ cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-8/8-004b/modalias
> of:NtrackpadT<NULL>Catmel,maxtouch
>
> NOTE: This patch may break out-of-tree drivers that were relying on this
> behavior, and only had an I2C device ID table even when the device
> was registered via OF. There are no remaining drivers in mainline
> that do this, but out-of-tree drivers have to be fixed and define
> a proper OF device ID table to have module auto-loading working.
>

Hello Javier,
thank you for your patch!

I had problem with auto-loading max9611 module, because it has no I2C
device ID table:
$ cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0070/modalias
of:Nmax9611_0_70T<NULL>Cmaxim,max9611

With your patch it has been auto-loaded well:
[ 0.796180] i2c i2c-0: of_i2c: register /ocp/i2c@44e0b000/max9611_0_70@70
[ 0.796431] i2c i2c-0: client [max9611] registered with bus id 0-0070
[ 6.260710] i2c-core: driver [max9611] registered

Additionally I use several modules with both I2C and OF device ID tables,
they work well with or without the patch (max1363, pinctrl_mcp23s08).

Regards,
Dmitry

Tested-by: Dmitry Mastykin <mastichi@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> index bf52cca87363..1596aa718bc8 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
> @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ static int i2c_device_uevent(struct device *dev,
> struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
> struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
> int rc;
>
> + rc = of_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env);
> + if (rc != -ENODEV)
> + return rc;
> +
> rc = acpi_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env);
> if (rc != -ENODEV)
> return rc;
> @@ -416,6 +420,10 @@ show_modalias(struct device *dev, struct
> device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
> int len;
>
> + len = of_device_modalias(dev, buf, PAGE_SIZE);
> + if (len != -ENODEV)
> + return len;
> +
> len = acpi_device_modalias(dev, buf, PAGE_SIZE -1);
> if (len != -ENODEV)
> return len;

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