From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
andrew@sanpeople.com, ben-linux@fluff.org, bryan.wu@analog.com,
dale@farnsworth.org, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net,
ralf@linux-mips.org, scottwood@freescale.com,
vitb@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/9] net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:03:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48117449.4070604@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804182050.m3IKoi47014840@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.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@linux-foundation.org: fix sgiseeq.c]
> [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers, registration fixes]
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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2008-04-18 20:50 [patch 7/9] net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug akpm
2008-04-25 6:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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