Re: [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices

[Jarkko Nikula]

On 01/16/2014 09:46 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:05:09PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 13:27 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > This seems a gap to me but I'm not 100% sure.
> > I saw Grant Likely introduced the OF style MODALIAS to platform bus, and
> > OF style registration/binding to i2c bus, maybe he has an answer for
> > this.
> This is needed for ACPI because we rewrite the device names to give us
> stable names.  With OF for I2C and SPI nothing bus specific is done that
> affects this stuff so the default behaviour works.
Sidenote: actually this modalias/module loading issue is different and 
not related to stable ACPI i2c/spi slave device names.

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Jarkko
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