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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] openfirmware: generate device table for userspace
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
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On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 20:30 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>  This patch converts the usage of struct of_match to struct of_device_id,
>  similar to pci_device_id. This allows a device table to be generated, which 
>  can be parsed by depmod(8) to generate a map file for module loading.
>  
>  In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to module-init-tools
>  and hotplug must be applied. Those patches are available at:
>  
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/linux/macio-hotplug/

They look good. I haven't tested yet though.

Ben.