linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: macros: Allow specifying multiple module aliases

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Message-ID: <Y/hpiWDLm0fB0Xp/@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:38:49 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        asahi@...ts.linux.dev, Finn Behrens <me@...enk.dev>,
        Sumera Priyadarsini <sylphrenadin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rust: macros: Allow specifying multiple module
 aliases

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 04:25:57PM +0900, Asahi Lina wrote:
> Modules can (and usually do) have multiple alias tags, in order to
> specify multiple possible device matches for autoloading. Allow this by
> changing the alias ModuleInfo field to an Option<Vec<String>>.

Note, manually specifying the MODULE_ALIAS is only really ever done for
platform drivers today (and I would argue we need to fix that up),
otherwise the use of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() should really really be used
instead of having to manually specify aliases.

And why would a module alias be needed for new (i.e. rust) code anyway?
You aren't trying to do any backwards-compatibility stuff yet :)

Or is this just for a platform driver?  It's hard to review
infrastructure changes without seeing any real users :(

thanks,

greg k-h