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

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Message-ID: <20140117155708.GS17314@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:57:08 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com,
	grant.likely@...aro.org, mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:37:56AM +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> On 01/16/2014 09:46 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >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.

Oh, I'd been under the impression that it was the rewrite that was
triggering this?

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