linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 02/23] of: device: Export of_device_{get_modalias, uvent

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Message-ID: <CAGb2v65n3ciP6dud8EqPU+pn0JnO+-Oqxgm+Z3vs+j-A7AbL1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:20:32 +0800
From:   Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
To:     Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Chen <peter.chen@....com>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/23] of: device: Export of_device_{get_modalias,
 uvent_modalias} to modules

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@...aro.org> wrote:
> The ULPI bus can be built as a module, and it will soon be
> calling these functions when it supports probing devices from DT.
> Export them so they can be used by the ULPI module.
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
> Cc: <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@...aro.org>

I'm interested in this as well. The sunxi-rsb bus is non-enumerable
and DT only, and existing slave device drivers can be built as modules.
We'd need this to support modalias loading of drivers.

ChenYu