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Hey all -

Many devices on the macintosh hardware platform are hidden behind a
macio asic that places devices beyond the PCI bus for hotplug. Loading
the driver manually works fine, but we have this wonderful hotplug
system now. Why should macio be a second class citizen?

At least for me, the most noticable one was my airport card, but there
may be others. I only have an ibook and a powermac.

Attached are three patches, which do the following:
* kernel-of-hotplug.diff; against 2.6.9-rc2 (mainline)
~   - exports OF information to userspace
~   - removes struct of_device in favor of struct of_device_id, which
~     uses character arrays such that the structure can be more easily
~     used by module-init-tools [the renaming is required to use the
~     MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE macro]
~   - changes the semantics of OF_MATCH_ANY to be an empty string
~   - adds the name, type, and compat strings to the macio sysfs tree
~   - adds a hotplug filter to pass the name, type, and compat info
~     to hotplug
~   - adds the appropriate MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries so that
~     module-init-tools can know about macio devices
~   - (Yes, I know this information is available via /proc/device_tree,
~      but sysfs is a much more natural fit)

* hotplug-macio.diff
~   - macio.rc: handles coldplugging of devices by traversing
~     the macio sysfs tree
~   - macio.agent: handles macio hotplug events

* module-init-tools-3.0-pre10-openfirmware.diff
~   - adds support for a modules.ofmap table so that the hotplug scripts
~     can determine which modules to load based on the OF information.

Is there a limit for the length of the various OF strings? I've assumed
32 for the sake of testing, but it's completely arbitrary.

Take a look if you're interested. My familiarity with the PPC world is
peripheral at best. I'd love feedback.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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