linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Output common devicetree information in uevent

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Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:29:35 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	Frederic Lambert <frdrc66@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Output common devicetree information in uevent

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:31 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>> The original function also creates a MODALIAS property for the
>> compatible
>> list, but that code has not been generalized into the common case
>> because
>> it has the potential to break module loading on a lot of bus types.
>> Bus
>> types are still responsible for their own MODALIAS properties.
>>
>> Boot tested on ARM and compile tested on PowerPC and SPARC.
>>
>>
> We also want to generalize adding the devspec property that we have on
> PCI to all devices no ?

The pci_show_devspec() function?  Yeah, that can be generalized, but
haven't researched where the best place to hook it in should be.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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