netdev - Re: [patch 7/9] net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:03:53 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kay.sievers@...y.org, andrew@...people.com,
	ben-linux@...ff.org, bryan.wu@...log.com, dale@...nsworth.org,
	dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	scottwood@...escale.com, vitb@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/9] net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug

akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> 
> Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is
> prefixed with "platform:".  Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable network
> platform drivers, to re-enable auto loading.
> 
> NOTE: didn't change drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c "old binding" support. 
> That looks problematic in the first place (it even uses the ancient "struct
> device_driver" binding scheme for platform_bus!) and I suspect it will vanish
> soonish when arch/powerpc rules the world.  Also, drivers/net/ne.c would have
> needed more thought to sort out.
> 
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: fix sgiseeq.c]
> [dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net: more drivers, registration fixes]
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
> Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org>
> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@...people.com>
> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...log.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

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