Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.
Signed-off-by: Jea
On 4/28/08, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
>
> This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
> the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
> point, the old i2c driver binding s
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:39 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
>
> This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
> the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
> point, the old i2c driver binding
Hi Kay,
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:07:25 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:39 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > One thing I am still not happy with is that the aliases created have a
> > trailing "*":
> >
> > $ /sbin/modinfo lm90
> > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.25-git11/kernel/dr
Hi Jon,
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:43:35 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 4/28/08, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One thing I am still not happy with is that the aliases created have a
> > trailing "*":
> >
> > $ /sbin/modinfo lm90
> > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.25-git11/kernel/driv
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 17:40 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:07:25 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:39 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > One thing I am still not happy with is that the aliases created have a
> > > trailing "*":
> > >
> > > $ /sbin/modinfo lm
Hi Kay,
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 17:40 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Why would i2c device modaliases ever contain multiple strings? A device
> > can't have multiple names, can it?
>
> Like ACPI/PNP devices, which can have several compat id's,
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 10:04 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 17:40 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > Why would i2c device modaliases ever contain multiple strings? A device
> > > can't have multiple names, can it?
> >
> >
