Re: [PATCH v5 02/23] of: device: Export of_device_{get_modalias, uvent_modalias} to modules

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Tue Oct 18 2016 - 01:21:09 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ULPI bus can be built as a module, and it will soon be
> calling these functions when it supports probing devices from DT.
> Export them so they can be used by the ULPI module.
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm interested in this as well. The sunxi-rsb bus is non-enumerable
and DT only, and existing slave device drivers can be built as modules.
We'd need this to support modalias loading of drivers.

ChenYu