Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] module: add SCMI device table alias support

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 11:29:50AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> SCMI client drivers already describe their bus match data with
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(scmi, ...), but modpost does not know how to consume
> SCMI device tables. As a result, SCMI modules do not get generated module
> aliases from their id tables.
> 
> Move struct scmi_device_id to mod_devicetable.h so it has a fixed layout
> visible to modpost, add the corresponding generated offsets and teach
> file2alias to emit scmi:<protocol>:<name> aliases.
> 
> Use the same stable alias format for SCMI device uevents and sysfs
> modaliases. The previous string included the instance-specific device
> name, which is not useful for matching modules.
> 
> Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.5
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v7:
> - Rebase on top of v7.3-rc3
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Drop unused driver_data member from struct scmi_device_id (Uwe)
> - Drop device-id/scmi.h include from mod_devicetable.h (Uwe)
> - Add device-id/scmi.h to devicetable-offsets.c and file2alias.c (Uwe)
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Adjust for ad428f5811bd ("mod_devicetable.h: Split into per subsystem
>   headers")
> - Add '\n' to modalias_show() output, matching other subsystems' modalias
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h> from scmi_protocol.h
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616-scmi-modalias-v1-0-662b8dd52ab2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                       |  1 +
>  drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c   | 21 ++++++++++-----------
>  include/linux/device-id/scmi.h    | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/scmi_protocol.h     |  6 +-----
>  scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c |  5 +++++
>  scripts/mod/file2alias.c          | 12 ++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/device-id/scmi.h
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index c2414447892c..f351ec56a2ec 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -26604,6 +26604,7 @@ F:	drivers/pmdomain/arm/
>  F:	drivers/powercap/arm_scmi_powercap.c
>  F:	drivers/regulator/scmi-regulator.c
>  F:	drivers/reset/reset-scmi.c
> +F:	include/linux/device-id/scmi.h
>  F:	include/linux/sc[mp]i_protocol.h
>  F:	include/trace/events/scmi.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/virtio_scmi.h
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c
> index e060edbe7e83..51de50fbc382 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c
> @@ -12,11 +12,12 @@
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/device.h>
>  
>  #include "common.h"
>  
> -#define SCMI_UEVENT_MODALIAS_FMT	"%s:%02x:%s"
> +#define SCMI_UEVENT_MODALIAS_FMT	SCMI_MODULE_PREFIX "%02x:%s"
>  
>  BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(scmi_requested_devices_nh);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scmi_requested_devices_nh);
> @@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ static int scmi_protocol_table_register(const struct scmi_device_id *id_table)
>  	const struct scmi_device_id *entry;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	for (entry = id_table; entry->name; entry++) {
> +	for (entry = id_table; entry->name[0]; entry++) {
>  		ret = scmi_protocol_device_request(entry);
>  		if (ret)
>  			goto err_unrequest;
> @@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ scmi_protocol_table_unregister(const struct scmi_device_id *id_table)
>  {
>  	const struct scmi_device_id *entry;
>  
> -	for (entry = id_table; entry->name; entry++)
> +	for (entry = id_table; entry->name[0]; entry++)
>  		scmi_protocol_device_unrequest(entry);
>  }
>  
> @@ -219,10 +220,10 @@ static int __scmi_dev_match_by_id_table(struct scmi_device *scmi_dev,
>  					const struct scmi_device_id *id_table,
>  					bool skip_transport)
>  {
> -	if (!id_table || !id_table->name)
> +	if (!id_table || !id_table->name[0])
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	for (; id_table->protocol_id && id_table->name; id_table++)
> +	for (; id_table->protocol_id && id_table->name[0]; id_table++)
>  		if (id_table->protocol_id == scmi_dev->protocol_id &&
>  		    !(skip_transport && scmi_device_is_transport(scmi_dev)) &&
>  		    !strcmp(id_table->name, scmi_dev->name))
> @@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ scmi_child_dev_find_get(struct device *parent, int prot_id, const char *name)
>  	struct device *dev;
>  
>  	id_table[0].protocol_id = prot_id;
> -	id_table[0].name = name;
> +	strscpy(id_table[0].name, name, sizeof(id_table[0].name));
>  
>  	dev = device_find_child(parent, &id_table, scmi_match_by_id_table);
>  	if (!dev)
> @@ -300,8 +301,7 @@ static int scmi_device_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *
>  	const struct scmi_device *scmi_dev = to_scmi_dev(dev);
>  
>  	return add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=" SCMI_UEVENT_MODALIAS_FMT,
> -			      dev_name(&scmi_dev->dev), scmi_dev->protocol_id,
> -			      scmi_dev->name);
> +			      scmi_dev->protocol_id, scmi_dev->name);
>  }
>  
>  static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev,
> @@ -309,9 +309,8 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev,
>  {
>  	struct scmi_device *scmi_dev = to_scmi_dev(dev);
>  
> -	return sysfs_emit(buf, SCMI_UEVENT_MODALIAS_FMT,
> -			  dev_name(&scmi_dev->dev), scmi_dev->protocol_id,
> -			  scmi_dev->name);
> +	return sysfs_emit(buf, SCMI_UEVENT_MODALIAS_FMT "\n",
> +			  scmi_dev->protocol_id, scmi_dev->name);
>  }
>  static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias);
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/device-id/scmi.h b/include/linux/device-id/scmi.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..1b4ccfa9dcc5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/device-id/scmi.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
> +#ifndef LINUX_DEVICE_ID_SCMI_H
> +#define LINUX_DEVICE_ID_SCMI_H
> +
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#endif
> +
> +#define SCMI_NAME_SIZE		32
> +#define SCMI_MODULE_PREFIX	"scmi:"
> +
> +struct scmi_device_id {
> +	__u8 protocol_id;
> +	char name[SCMI_NAME_SIZE];

I wonder if you tried to keep this a char *. ISTR someone did something
similar recently and they claimed it worked. That would get rid of the
artificial name size limit and simplify this patch.

> +};
> +
> +#endif /* ifndef LINUX_DEVICE_ID_SCMI_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/scmi_protocol.h b/include/linux/scmi_protocol.h
> index 5ab73b1ab9aa..ba53302d95f5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/scmi_protocol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/scmi_protocol.h
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>  #define _LINUX_SCMI_PROTOCOL_H
>  
>  #include <linux/bitfield.h>
> +#include <linux/device-id/scmi.h>
>  #include <linux/device.h>
>  #include <linux/notifier.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
> @@ -951,11 +952,6 @@ struct scmi_device {
>  
>  #define to_scmi_dev(d) container_of_const(d, struct scmi_device, dev)
>  
> -struct scmi_device_id {
> -	u8 protocol_id;
> -	const char *name;
> -};
> -
>  struct scmi_driver {
>  	const char *name;
>  	int (*probe)(struct scmi_device *sdev);
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c b/scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c
> index b4178c42d08f..91ec3704ee2b 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  #define COMPILE_OFFSETS
> +#include <linux/device-id/scmi.h>
>  #include <linux/kbuild.h>
>  #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
>  
> @@ -144,6 +145,10 @@ int main(void)
>  	DEVID(rpmsg_device_id);
>  	DEVID_FIELD(rpmsg_device_id, name);
>  
> +	DEVID(scmi_device_id);
> +	DEVID_FIELD(scmi_device_id, protocol_id);
> +	DEVID_FIELD(scmi_device_id, name);
> +
>  	DEVID(i2c_device_id);
>  	DEVID_FIELD(i2c_device_id, name);
>  
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
> index 8d36c74dec2d..5379b1def07b 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ typedef struct {
>  /* Big exception to the "don't include kernel headers into userspace, which
>   * even potentially has different endianness and word sizes, since
>   * we handle those differences explicitly below */
> +#include "../../include/linux/device-id/scmi.h"
>  #include "../../include/linux/mod_devicetable.h"
>  
>  struct devtable {
> @@ -852,6 +853,16 @@ static void do_rpmsg_entry(struct module *mod, void *symval)
>  	module_alias_printf(mod, false, RPMSG_DEVICE_MODALIAS_FMT, *name);
>  }
>  
> +/* Looks like: scmi:NN:S */
> +static void do_scmi_entry(struct module *mod, void *symval)
> +{
> +	DEF_FIELD(symval, scmi_device_id, protocol_id);
> +	DEF_FIELD_ADDR(symval, scmi_device_id, name);
> +
> +	module_alias_printf(mod, false, SCMI_MODULE_PREFIX "%02x:%s",
> +			    protocol_id, *name);
> +}
> +
>  /* Looks like: i2c:S */
>  static void do_i2c_entry(struct module *mod, void *symval)
>  {
> @@ -1491,6 +1502,7 @@ static const struct devtable devtable[] = {
>  	{"virtio", SIZE_virtio_device_id, do_virtio_entry},
>  	{"vmbus", SIZE_hv_vmbus_device_id, do_vmbus_entry},
>  	{"rpmsg", SIZE_rpmsg_device_id, do_rpmsg_entry},
> +	{"scmi", SIZE_scmi_device_id, do_scmi_entry},
>  	{"i2c", SIZE_i2c_device_id, do_i2c_entry},
>  	{"i3c", SIZE_i3c_device_id, do_i3c_entry},
>  	{"slim", SIZE_slim_device_id, do_slim_entry},

I wonder if this is supposed to be ordered alphabetically ...

Best regards
Uwe

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