Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2012 16:20:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Output common devicetree information in uevent |
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:31 -0700, Grant Likely wrote: >>> The original function also creates a MODALIAS property for the >>> compatible >>> list, but that code has not been generalized into the common case >>> because >>> it has the potential to break module loading on a lot of bus types. >>> Bus >>> types are still responsible for their own MODALIAS properties. >>> >>> Boot tested on ARM and compile tested on PowerPC and SPARC. >>> >>> >> We also want to generalize adding the devspec property that we have on >> PCI to all devices no ? > > The pci_show_devspec() function? Yeah, that can be generalized, but > haven't researched where the best place to hook it in should be.
Is there any point in generalizing that attribute though when the data is in uevent?
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