From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 7/9] net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:03:53 -0400 Message-ID: <48117449.4070604@garzik.org> References: <200804182050.m3IKoi47014840@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:58559 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755044AbYDYGD7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:03:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200804182050.m3IKoi47014840@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > From: Kay Sievers > > 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 > Signed-off-by: David Brownell > Cc: Jeff Garzik > Cc: Scott Wood > Cc: Vitaly Bordug > Cc: Dale Farnsworth > Cc: Ben Dooks > Cc: Ralf Baechle > Cc: Andrew Victor > Cc: Bryan Wu > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton applied