Re: [PATCH V14 8/9] vfio, platform: add support for ACPI while detecting the reset driver

From: Sinan Kaya
Date: Fri Mar 04 2016 - 00:20:29 EST


On 3/3/2016 6:14 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
> Hi Sinan,
> On 03/02/2016 07:34 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 2/26/2016 12:15 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
>>>> -module_init(reset ## _module_init); \
>>>>> +#define module_vfio_reset_handler(compat, acpihid, reset) \
>>>>> +MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset:" compat); \
>>> Here you need to handle alias for hid case I think
>>
>> I'm wondering what happens when Compat or ACPI string is NULL.
>>
>> MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset:" NULL)
>>
>> Would the kernel like it?
>
>>
>> I'd rather create an alias only when the string is not NULL. Given
>> this is a macro, I believe it won't work.
>
> Indeed I think we should create an alias only for the supported case or
> 2 aliases if both are supported.
>>
>> Can you think of any other way in the code to create the alias?
>>
> To be honest I did not find any elegant solution either. Personally I
> would move the MODULE_ALIAS for compat/acpihid outside of
> module_vfio_reset_handler macro, directly in the reset module. But maybe
> someone will propose a better solution?
>

I briefly looked at this.

#define MODULE_ALIAS(_alias) MODULE_INFO(alias, _alias)
#define MODULE_INFO(tag, info) __MODULE_INFO(tag, tag, info)

and it eventually becomes this

#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
static const char __UNIQUE_ID(name)[] \
__used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1))) \
= __stringify(tag) "=" info

Since the info is on the right side of the equation, I'm allowed to add some
conditionals.

#define module_vfio_reset_handler(compat, acpihid, reset) \
MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset:" acpihid? acpihid: compat); \

This way, we'll create an alias with one of the provided strings.



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