On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:17:37PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:

It is certainly easier to deal with a small integer than with 128bit giud and there is
no added benefit dealing with guids since the number of drivers we will support
under vmbus will never exceed a very small number. Having said that, I will go ahead
and embed full guids as you have suggested. So, the aliases for these drivers will be:
vmbus:device guid.

Wait, no, you will never be typing "MODULE_ALIAS()" in your driver at
all, it will be created automatically for you by the proper macro fun
with the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() line.  The same variable you use in that
macro will be used to register the driver with the vmbus core.

No one ever sees module aliases in the "raw" anymore, except for the
platform legacy crud.

thanks,

greg k-h