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author | Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.mks.ru> | 2006-09-27 01:50:56 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-27 08:26:19 -0700 |
commit | 07563c711fbc25389e58ab9c9f0b9de2fce56760 (patch) | |
tree | aadbe41b9303c636a2c44169680613b8b56d5006 /README | |
parent | ebba5f9fcb882306bef7175dee987342ec6fcf2f (diff) |
[PATCH] EISA bus MODALIAS attributes support
Add modalias attribute support for the almost forgotten now EISA bus and
(at least some) EISA-aware modules.
The modalias entry looks like (for an 3c509 NIC):
eisa:sTCM5093
and the in-module alias like:
eisa:sTCM5093*
The patch moves struct eisa_device_id declaration from include/linux/eisa.h
to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h (so that the former now #includes the
latter), adds proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, ...) statements for all
drivers with EISA IDs I found (some drivers already have that DEVICE_TABLE
declared), and adds recognision of __mod_eisa_device_table to
scripts/mod/file2alias.c so that proper modules.alias will be generated.
There's no support for /lib/modules/$kver/modules.eisamap, as it's not used
by any existing tools, and because with in-kernel modalias mechanism those
maps are obsolete anyway.
The rationale for this patch is:
a) to make EISA bus to act as other busses with modalias
support, to unify driver loading
b) to foget about EISA finally - with this patch, kernel
(who still supports EISA) will be the only one who knows
how to choose the necessary drivers for this bus ;)
[akpm@osdl.org: fix the kbuild bit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-the-net-bits-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-the-tulip-bit-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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