This makes modpost handle MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, xxxx).
I had to change the string pointers in the match table to char arrays,
and picked a size of 79 bytes almost at random -- do we need to make it
bigger than that? I was a bit concerned about the 'bloat' this
introduces into the match tables, but they should all be __initdata so
it shouldn't matter too much.
(Actually, modpost does go through the relocations and look at most of
them; it wouldn't be impossible to make it handle string pointers -- but
doesn't seem to be worth the effort, since they're __initdata).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
With 22454cb99f we added only the
first entry of the device table. We need to loop over the whole
device list.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Trying to compile the v850 port brings many compile errors, one of them exists
since at least kernel 2.6.19.
There also seems to be noone willing to bring this port back into a usable
state.
This patch therefore removes the v850 port.
If anyone ever decides to revive the v850 port the code will still be
available from older kernels, and it wouldn't be impossible for the port to
reenter the kernel if it would become actively maintained again.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Along with the non-modalias conformant "pnp:*" aliases, we add "acpi:*"
entries to PNP drivers, to allow module autoloading by ACPI PNP device
entries, which export proper modalias information, without any specific
userspace modprobe mangling.
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add modalias and subchannel type attributes for all subchannels.
I/O subchannel specific attributes are now created in
io_subchannel_probe(). modalias and subchannel type are also
added to the uevent for the css bus. Also make the css modalias
known.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Not all device types need a wildcard at the end of their module
aliases. In particular, for i2c module aliases, the trailing wildcard
is not only unneeded, it could also cause the wrong driver to be
loaded.
As I2C devices have no IDs, i2c module aliases are simple, arbitrary
device names. For example:
$ /sbin/modinfo lm90
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.25-git18/kernel/drivers/hwmon/lm90.ko
author: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
description: LM90/ADM1032 driver
license: GPL
vermagic: 2.6.25-git18 mod_unload
depends: hwmon
alias: i2c:lm90*
alias: i2c:adm1032*
alias: i2c:lm99*
alias: i2c:lm86*
alias: i2c:max6657*
alias: i2c:adt7461*
alias: i2c:max6680*
$
This would cause trouble if one I2C chip name matches the beginning of
another I2C chip name and both chips are supported by different
drivers. For example, an i2c device named lm9042 would cause the lm90
driver to be loaded, while it doesn't support that device. This case
has yet to be seen in practice, but still, I'd like to fix it now. The
cleanest fix is to remove the trailing wildcard from i2c module aliases.
Here's a patch doing this.
Not all device type aliases need a trailing wildcard, in particular
the i2c aliases don't. Don't add a wildcard by default in do_table(),
instead let each device type handler add it if needed.
I have tested types acpi, dmi, eisa, i2c, ide, ieee1394, input, pci,
pcmcia, platform, pnp, scsi, serio, ssb and usb. Other types (ccw, of,
vio, parisc, sdio and virtio) are untested.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
The current PNP combined card + devices module aliase can
never ever match anything, because these values are not available
all at the same time to request a module.
Instead of adding the combined alias, we add the device id's
all as individual aliases. Device id's are exported by the PNP
bus and can now properly used to request the loading of a
matching module.
The module snd-sbawe currently exports aliases, which can never
match anything:
alias: pnp:cCTLXXXXdCTL0045dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTLXXXXdCTL0044dCTL0023*
alias: pnp:cCTLXXXXdCTL0042dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTLXXXXdCTL0041dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTLXXXXdCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL00eddCTL0041dCTL0070*
alias: pnp:cCTL00e9dCTL0045dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL00e4dCTL0045dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL00c7dCTL0045dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL00c5dCTL0045dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL00c3dCTL0045dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL00c1dCTL0042dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL00b2dCTL0044dCTL0023*
alias: pnp:cCTL009edCTL0044dCTL0023*
alias: pnp:cCTL009ddCTL0042dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:cCTL009fdCTL0041dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL009cdCTL0041dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL009adCTL0041dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0054dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0048dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0047dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0046dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0045dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0044dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0043dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0042dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0039dCTL0031dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:cCTL0035dCTL0031dCTL0021*
With this patch it exports only the device id's, as properly
matchable aliases:
alias: pnp:dCTL0070*
alias: pnp:dCTL0045*
alias: pnp:dCTL0023*
alias: pnp:dCTL0044*
alias: pnp:dCTL0022*
alias: pnp:dCTL0042*
alias: pnp:dCTL0041*
alias: pnp:dCTL0021*
alias: pnp:dCTL0031*
Now, the exported value of the PNP bus can be used to autoload
a matching module:
$ modprobe --first-time -n -v pnp:dCTL0045
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/core/snd-rawmidi.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/core/snd-hwdep.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb-common.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb16-csp.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb16-dsp.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/drivers/opl3/snd-opl3-lib.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc6-g5b825ed2-dirty/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sbawe.ko
$ grep CTL0045 /sys/bus/pnp/devices/*/id
/sys/bus/pnp/devices/01:01.00/id:CTL0045
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The module alias support in the kernel have a consistency
check where it is checked that the size of a structure
in the kernel and on the build host are the same.
For cross builds this check does not make sense so detect
when we do cross builds and silently skip the check in these
situations.
This fixes a build bug for a wireless driver when cross building
for arm.
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Some crazy devices in the wild have a vendor id of 0x0000. If we try to
add a module alias with this id, we just can't do it due to a check in
the file2alias.c file. Change the test to verify that both the vendor
and product ids are 0x0000 to show a real "blank" module alias.
Note, the module-init-tools package also needs to be changed to properly
generate the depmod tables.
Cc: Janusz <janumix@poczta.fm>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This adds the logic to convert the virtio ids into module aliases, and
includes a modalias entry in sysfs and the env var to make probing work.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits)
kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP
kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline
kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS
kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu
kbuild: check for wrong use of CFLAGS
kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC
kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage
kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists
kbuild: call export_report from the Makefile
kbuild: move Kai Germaschewski to CREDITS
kconfig/menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments
kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values
include/linux/Kbuild: remove duplicate entries
kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks
kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS
kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt
kbuild: call make once for all targets when O=.. is used
kbuild: pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
kbuild: update _shipped files for kconfig syntax cleanup
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/um/sys-{x86_64,i386}/Makefile manually.
I2C devices do not have any form of ID as PCI or USB devices have.
No driver uses "MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ...)" because it doesn't
make sense. So we can get rid of struct i2c_device_id and the
associated support code.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cause modpost to fail if any device id lists are incorrectly terminated,
after reporting the offender.
Improved reporting by akpm
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (867 commits)
[SKY2]: status polling loop (post merge)
[NET]: Fix NAPI completion handling in some drivers.
[TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do cases
[TCP]: Fix lost_retrans loop vs fastpath problems
[TCP]: No need to re-count fackets_out/sacked_out at RTO
[TCP]: Extract tcp_match_queue_to_sack from sacktag code
[TCP]: Kill almost unused variable pcount from sacktag
[TCP]: Fix mark_head_lost to ignore R-bit when trying to mark L
[TCP]: Add bytes_acked (ABC) clearing to FRTO too
[IPv6]: Update setsockopt(IPV6_MULTICAST_IF) to support RFC 3493, try2
[NETFILTER]: x_tables: add missing ip6t_modulename aliases
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection reopening
[QETH]: fix qeth_main.c
[NETLINK]: fib_frontend build fixes
[IPv6]: Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)
[9P]: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL
[NET]: Fix dev_put() and dev_hold() comments
[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
[NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognition
[NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskb
...
Fix up conflicts manually in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
and my new least favourite crap, the "mod_devicetable" support in the
files include/linux/mod_devicetable.h and scripts/mod/file2alias.c.
(The latter files seem to be explicitly _designed_ to get conflicts when
different subsystems work with them - that have an absolutely horrid
lack of subsystem separation!)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
SSB is an SoC bus used in a number of embedded devices. The most
well-known of these devices is probably the Linksys WRT54G, but there
are others as well. The bus is also used internally on the BCM43xx
and BCM44xx devices from Broadcom.
This patch also includes support for SSB ID tables in modules, so
that SSB drivers can be loaded automatically.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Modify modpost (file2alias.c) to add acpi*:XYZ0001: alias in modules.alias
like:
grep acpi /lib/modules/2.6.22-rc4-default/modules.alias
alias acpi*:SNY5001:* sony_laptop
alias acpi*:SNY6001:* sony_laptop
for e.g. the sony_laptop module.
This module matches against all ACPI devices with a HID or CID of SNY5001
or SNY6001
Export an uevent and modalias sysfs file containing the string:
[MODALIAS=]acpi:PNP0C0C:
additional CIDs are concatenated at the end.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Since the devices may have multiple (or none) compatible properties,
the uevent generated internally by the kernel may have multiple
"C..." entries. So the MODALIAS stored in the module must have
wilcard before and after the compatible entry.
Also, if the 'compatible' field is not used for matching, there
will be no 'C' and that must handled as well.
The previous code handled all those case incorrectly and it
"mostly" worked ... but not always.
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Almost all definitions used by file2alias was already
present in mod_devicetable.h.
Added the last definition and killed the input.h usage.
The errornous include was pointed out
by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Add modalias attribute support for the almost forgotten now EISA bus and
(at least some) EISA-aware modules.
The modalias entry looks like (for an 3c509 NIC):
eisa:sTCM5093
and the in-module alias like:
eisa:sTCM5093*
The patch moves struct eisa_device_id declaration from include/linux/eisa.h
to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h (so that the former now #includes the
latter), adds proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, ...) statements for all
drivers with EISA IDs I found (some drivers already have that DEVICE_TABLE
declared), and adds recognision of __mod_eisa_device_table to
scripts/mod/file2alias.c so that proper modules.alias will be generated.
There's no support for /lib/modules/$kver/modules.eisamap, as it's not used
by any existing tools, and because with in-kernel modalias mechanism those
maps are obsolete anyway.
The rationale for this patch is:
a) to make EISA bus to act as other busses with modalias
support, to unify driver loading
b) to foget about EISA finally - with this patch, kernel
(who still supports EISA) will be the only one who knows
how to choose the necessary drivers for this bus ;)
[akpm@osdl.org: fix the kbuild bit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-the-net-bits-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-the-tulip-bit-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a bus for the adjunct processor interface. Up to 64 devices can
be connect to the ap bus interface, each device with 16 domains. That
makes 1024 message queues. The interface is asynchronous, the answer
to a message sent to a queue needs to be received at some later point
in time. Unfortunately the interface does not provide interrupts when
a message reply is pending. So the ap bus needs to implement some
fancy polling, each active queue is polled once per 1/HZ second or
continuously if an idle cpus exsists and the poll thread is activ
(see poll_thread parameter).
The ap bus uses the sysfs path /sys/bus/ap and has two bus attributes,
ap_domain and config_time. The ap_domain selects one of the 16 domains
to be used for this system. This limits the maximum number of ap devices
to 64. The config_time attribute contains the number of seconds between
two ap bus scans to find new devices.
The ap bus uses the modalias entries of the form "ap:tN" to autoload
the ap driver for hardware type N. Currently known types are:
3 - PCICC, 4 - PCICA, 5 - PCIXCC, 6 - CEX2A and 7 - CEX2C.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
There is a small but annoying bug in scripts/mod/file2alias.c which causes
it to generate invalid aliases for input devices on 64 bit archs. This causes
joydev.ko to not be automaticly loaded when inserting a joystick, resulting in
a non working joystick (for the average user).
In scripts/mod/file2alias.c is the following code for generating the input
aliases:
static void do_input(char *alias,
kernel_ulong_t *arr, unsigned int min, unsigned int max)
{
unsigned int i;
for (i = min; i < max; i++)
if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1 << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
sprintf(alias + strlen(alias), "%X,*", i);
}
On 32 bits systems, this correctly generates "0,*" for the first alias, "8,*"
for the second etc.
However on 64 bits it generates: "0,*20,*" resp "8,*28,*" Notice how it adds 20
+ first entry (hex) ! to the list of hex codes, which is 32 more then the first
entry, thus is because the bit test above wraps at 32 bits instead of 64.
scripts/mod/file2alias.c, line 379 reads:
if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1 << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
That should be:
if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1L << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
Notice the added 'L' after the 1, otherwise that is an 32 bit int instead of a
64 bit long, and when that int gets shifted >= 32 times, appearantly the number
by which to shift is wrapped at 5 bits ( % 32) causing it to test a bit 32 bits
too low.
The patch below makes the nescesarry 1 char change :)
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The original errormessage was just plain unreadable.
Sample error message after this update (not for real - I provoked it):
FATAL: drivers/net/s2io: sizeof(struct pci_device_id)=33 is not a modulo of the
size of section __mod_pci_device_table=160.
Fix definition of struct pci_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
Before a warning was generated - this is now a fatal error.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
kbuild: clean-up genksyms
kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
kbuild: fix genksyms build error
kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
...
Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
Fix matching of devmodel in modaliases. It breaks automatic loading of any
dasd module.
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Here's the patch for modalias support for input classes. It uses
comma-separated numbers, and doesn't describe all the potential keys (no
module currently cares, and that would make the strings huge). The
changes to input.h are to move the definitions needed by file2alias
outside __KERNEL__. I chose not to move those definitions to
mod_devicetable.h, because there are so many that it might break compile
of something else in the kernel.
The rest is fairly straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
- Added a missing TO_NATIVE call to scripts/mod/file2alias.c:do_pcmcia_entry()
- Add an alignment attribute to struct pcmcia_device_no to solve an alignment
issue seen when cross-compiling on x86 for m68k.
Signed-off-by: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
This 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/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Another attempt at that...
The attached patch fixes the longstanding problem with USB bcdDevice
numeric ranges incorrectly converted into patterns for MODULE_ALIAS
generation. Previously it put both the lower and the upper limits into
the pattern, dlXdhY, making it impossible to fnmatch against except for
a few special cases, like dl*dh* or dlXdhX.
The patch makes it generate multiple MODULE_ALIAS lines covering the
whole range with fnmatch-able patterns. E.g. for a range between 0x0001
and 0x8345 it gives the following patterns:
000[1-9]
00[1-9]*
0[1-9]*
[1-7]*
8[0-2]*
83[0-3]*
834[0-5]
Since bcdDevice is 2 bytes wide = 4 digits in hex representation, the
max no. of patters is 2 * 4 - 1 = 7.
The values are BCD (binary-coded decimals) and not hex, so patterns
using a dash seem to be safe regardless of locale collation order.
The patch changes bcdDevice part of the alias from dlXdhY to dZ, but
this shouldn't have big compatibility issues because fnmatch()-based
modprobing hasn't yet been widely used. Besides, the most common (and
almost the only working) case of dl*dh* becomes d* and thus continues to
work.
The patch is against 2.6.12-rc2, applies to -mm3 with an offset. The
matching patch to fix the MODALIAS environment variable now generated by
the usb hotplug function follows.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Jiri Slaby