From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754548Ab1KVTXT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:23:19 -0500 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:53490 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755071Ab1KVTXP (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:23:15 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 21OJbOiZPX6N3TiqBhTnXV8SYksdmP5XGDU6R6D82YkT 1321989794 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:23:00 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alessandro Rubini Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, siglesia@cern.ch, manohar.vanga@cern.ch Subject: Re: [RGC PATCH 0/2] split file2alias using elf sections Message-ID: <20111122192300.GA5052@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 01:23:00PM +0100, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > When adding a new bus type with autoloading of modules, people should > always change the global scripts/mod/file2alias.c source file, whereas > most of the new code is just new files and individual Makefile/Kconfig > lines. > > The first patch turns all the "normal" alias generation in a > table-driven loop. The second patch moves a few alias types out of the > main file2alias.c source, as a demonstration that the thing works. > > I didn't move all bus/alias types out of the main file, as it's a huge > work. But if the approach is going to be accepted I can do that (or > happily leave the task to who volunteers). Yes!!!! I've been wanting this for years, and so have others (Linus, Andrew, etc.) I'll gladly take this through my driver-core tree, as it can handle cross-bus issues like this. Do you feel this series is good enough to accept, or do you want to respin it again? thanks, greg k-h