Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices | From | Zhang Rui <> | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:16:43 +0800 |
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On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 14:41 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:00:17PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 17:35 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 09:48:31PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > > > ACPI enumerated devices has ACPI style _HID and _CID strings, > > > > all of these strings can be used for both driver loading and matching. > > > If this piece of code is used in an *SPI* driver for an ACPI enumerated > > spi device, the spi driver module_alias is "acpi:INTABCD", but > > the uevent of its spi device node is > > "spi:INTABCD" (PREFIX:spi_device->modalias). > > OK that makes sense, but what does this have to do with the _HID and > _CID methods?
If an ACPI enumerated SPI device has a _HID and a _CID, both of them need to be exposed in 'uevent', so that a driver that matches _CID can also have a chance to be probed. This can not be done by the current code, thus we need special handling of ACPI enumerated SPI devices.
> Surely we're just replacing spi: with acpi: in the uevent?
yes.
thanks, rui
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