linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/24] Bluetooth: hci_bcm: MODULE_DEVICE

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:31:08 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:     Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/24] Bluetooth: hci_bcm: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(serdev)

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
>> Export serdev table to the module header, allowing module autoload via
>> udev/modprobe.

>> static const struct serdev_device_id bcm_serdev_id[] = {
>>       { "bcm43438-bt", },
>> +     { "hci_uart_bcm", },
>>       {}
>> };
>> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(serdev, bcm_serdev_id);
>
> so this one I can see real use of and is a good fix to finally clean up hci_bcm.c and remove platform support for the Edison hardware. However, I would really then first rename hci_uart_bcm into some Edison specific string since this is really just one outlier here.

Or other way around, hack
arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_bt.c to be compatible
with these changes (Dunno if it's possible).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko