Re: [05/27] macintosh: therm_windtunnel: Export I2C module alias information

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 12:35 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> On 08/18/2015 12:24 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-30-07 at 16:18:30 UTC, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >> The I2C core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "i2c:<client name"
> >> regardless if the driver was matched using the I2C id_table or the
> >> of_match_table. So the driver needs to export the I2C table and this
> >> be built into the module or udev won't have the necessary information
> >> to auto load the correct module when the device is added.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >>  drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > Who are you expecting to merge this?
> > 
> 
> I was expecting Benjamin Herrenschmidt since he is listed in MAINTAINERS
> for drivers/macintosh. I cc'ed him in the patch but now in your answer I
> don't see him in the cc list, strange.

That's the mailing list dropping him from CC because he's subscribed.

> But I'll be happy to re-post if there is another person who is handling
> the patches for this driver now.
> 
> BTW there is another patch [0] for the same driver to export the OF id
> table information, that was not picked either.

Yep, I'll grab them both.

cheers


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