From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Define module alias for platform device
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:09:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BC5ED7.5010800@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080216171527.GA2552@deprecation.cyrius.com>
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> The sata_mv driver can be loaded as a platform device, as is done by
> various Orion (ARM) based devices. The driver needs to define a module
> alias for the platform driver so udev will load it automatically.
> Tested with Debian on a QNAP TS-209.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
>
> --- a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c
> @@ -3198,6 +3198,7 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SCSI low-level driver for Marvell SATA controllers");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mv_pci_tbl);
> MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION);
> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:sata_mv");
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
> module_param(msi, int, 0444);
applied
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-16 17:15 [PATCH] sata_mv: Define module alias for platform device Martin Michlmayr
2008-02-16 17:22 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-20 17:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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