linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: pcm179x: Add I2C interface driver

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:59:34 +0100
From:	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
	Michael Trimarchi <michael@...rulasolutions.com>,
	Jacob Siverskog <jacob@...nage.engineering>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	"alsa-devel@...a-project.org" <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: pcm179x: Add I2C interface driver

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:32:08PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:11:44PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:25:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This does seem like something that the modules code should be able to
> > > cope with - we have a reference from the driver struct to the table
> > > which you'd really expect it to be using.  We already have some issues
> > > there with userspace not handling multiple modaliases terribly well IIRC.
> 
> > That reference is only used for matching, while the aliases are
> > generated from the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE macro (and elf magic).
> 
> Sure, but there's no reason we can't change that.

Might take quite a bit of work to the modpost tools to achieve, though.

Johan