Re: [PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent

From	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent
Date	2017-06-29 23:40 +0200
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On Thu 29 Jun 14:04 PDT 2017, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> On 06/28, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > Include the OF-based modalias in the uevent sent when registering SPMI
> > devices, so that user space has a chance to autoload the kernel module
> > for the device.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> > ---
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> 
> I suppose we can delete the MODALIAS in the qcom-spmi-pmic file
> too? That doesn't look like it could ever work
> 

Right, it has never worked. Potentially we would like some SPMI based
modalias thing, but I'm not sure we have enough information about the
found device to create a meaningful alias.

Regards,
Bjorn

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[PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-06-29 01:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> - 2017-06-29 04:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2017-06-29 23:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-06-29 23:40 +0200

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