Re: [PATCH -next 0/9] drivers: fix some module autoloading

[Andi Shyti]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:09:49PM GMT, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2024, at 13:38, Yuntao Liu wrote:
> > Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(), so modules could be properly autoloaded
> > based on the alias from platform_device_id table.
> >
> > Yuntao Liu (9):
> >   usb: ehci-mv: fix module autoloading
> >   soc: pxa: ssp: fix module autoloading
> >   misc: atmel-ssc: fix module autoloading
> >   i2c: at91: fix module autoloading
> >   mpc85xx_edac: fix module autoloading
> >   dmaengine: pxa: fix module autoloading
> >   dmaengine: mmp_pdma: fix module autoloading
> >   dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix module autoloading
> >   ipmi: ipmi_ssif: fix module autoloading
> 
> I looked at all the patches and found that most of them do not
> use the table any more, or will stop using it in the near future.
> 
> I think your work to validate the correctness of the entries
> is useful, but it may be more helpful to focus on removing
> all the unused tables, including those that have a
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() tag.
> 
> If you are planning to do more such cleanups, maybe you can
> go through them one subsystem at a time and look for drivers
> that have both of_device_id and i2c_device_id/platform_device_id/
> spi_device_id tables. If nothing in the kernel creates a device
> with the legacy string, you can then send a patch that removes
> the old device ID list and at the same time makes the DT support
> unconditional in case there is an #ifdef CONFIG_OF check.
> 
> If the probe() function accesses platform_data, this would also
> be unused, allowing an even nicer cleanup of removing the
> platofrm_data path in favor of OF properties.

Thanks for looking into these patches, Arnd!

Andi