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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/27] Export I2C and OF module aliases in missing drivers
    On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 09:35:17AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
    > Hi Javier,
    >
    > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:18:25PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
    > > Hello,
    > >
    > > Short version:
    > >
    > > This series add the missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() for OF and I2C tables
    > > to export that information so modules have the correct aliases built-in
    > > and autoloading works correctly.
    > >
    > > Longer version:
    > >
    > > Currently it's mandatory for I2C drivers to have an I2C device ID table
    > > regardless if the device was registered using platform data or OF. This
    > > is because the I2C core needs an I2C device ID table for two reasons:
    > >
    > > 1) Match the I2C client with a I2C device ID so a struct i2c_device_id
    > > is passed to the I2C driver probe() function.
    > >
    > > 2) Export the module aliases from the I2C device ID table so userspace
    > > can auto-load the correct module. This is because i2c_device_uevent
    > > always reports a MODALIAS of the form i2c:<client->name>.
    >
    > Why are we not fixing this? We emit specially carved uevent for
    > ACPI-based devices, why not the same for OF? Platform bus does this...

    Ah, now I see the 27/27 patch. I think it is exactly what we need. And
    probably for SPI bus as well.

    Thanks.

    --
    Dmitry


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