Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 2 authors, 2024-08-19

Re: [PATCH -next 0/9] drivers: fix some module autoloading

From: liuyuntao (F) <hidden>
Date: 2024-08-19 12:23:06
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-edac, linux-i2c, linux-usb, lkml

yes sir^^.

Regards!
Yuntao

On 2024/8/19 20:09, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024, at 13:38, Yuntao Liu wrote:
quoted
Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(), so modules could be properly autoloaded
based on the alias from platform_device_id table.

Yuntao Liu (9):
   usb: ehci-mv: fix module autoloading
   soc: pxa: ssp: fix module autoloading
   misc: atmel-ssc: fix module autoloading
   i2c: at91: fix module autoloading
   mpc85xx_edac: fix module autoloading
   dmaengine: pxa: fix module autoloading
   dmaengine: mmp_pdma: fix module autoloading
   dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix module autoloading
   ipmi: ipmi_ssif: fix module autoloading
I looked at all the patches and found that most of them do not
use the table any more, or will stop using it in the near future.

I think your work to validate the correctness of the entries
is useful, but it may be more helpful to focus on removing
all the unused tables, including those that have a
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() tag.

If you are planning to do more such cleanups, maybe you can
go through them one subsystem at a time and look for drivers
that have both of_device_id and i2c_device_id/platform_device_id/
spi_device_id tables. If nothing in the kernel creates a device
with the legacy string, you can then send a patch that removes
the old device ID list and at the same time makes the DT support
unconditional in case there is an #ifdef CONFIG_OF check.

If the probe() function accesses platform_data, this would also
be unused, allowing an even nicer cleanup of removing the
platofrm_data path in favor of OF properties.

       Arnd
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