Re: [PATCH] spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent

[Rob Clark]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Include the OF-based modalias in the uevent sent when registering SPMI
> devices, so that user space has a chance to autoload the kernel module
> for the device.
>
> Reported-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> Based on the MODULE_ALIAS in the qcom-spmi-pmic it's likely that the original
> author expected that the spmi-pmic-arb would create devices by the identifier
> "pmic" and the spmi code would include a MODALIAS="spmi:pmic" in the uevent.
>
>  drivers/spmi/spmi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spmi/spmi.c b/drivers/spmi/spmi.c
> index 2b9b0941d9eb..6d23226e5f69 100644
> --- a/drivers/spmi/spmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spmi/spmi.c
> @@ -365,11 +365,23 @@ static int spmi_drv_remove(struct device *dev)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> +static int spmi_drv_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
> +{
> +       int ret;
> +
> +       ret = of_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env);
> +       if (ret != -ENODEV)
> +               return ret;
> +
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static struct bus_type spmi_bus_type = {
>         .name           = "spmi",
>         .match          = spmi_device_match,
>         .probe          = spmi_drv_probe,
>         .remove         = spmi_drv_remove,
> +       .uevent         = spmi_drv_uevent,
>  };
>
>  /**
> --
> 2.12.0
>