linux-toradex.git/scripts/mod/file2alias.c, branch v2.6.26-rc5

modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard

2008-05-04T07:24:47+00:00

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 
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 
Acked-by: Jochen Friedrich 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

i2c: Add support for device alias names

2008-04-29T21:11:39+00:00

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 
Cc: Jochen Friedrich 
Cc: Jon Smirl 
Cc: Kay Sievers

PNP: add all PNP card device id's as individual aliases

2008-04-20T02:10:22+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds

2008-03-23T20:38:54+00:00

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 
Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: stable@kernel.org

USB: handle idVendor of 0x0000

2008-02-01T22:34:46+00:00

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 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Module autoprobing support for virtio drivers.

2007-10-23T05:49:55+00:00

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild

2007-10-16T18:23:06+00:00

* 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: Kill struct i2c_device_id

2007-10-13T21:56:29+00:00

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 
Cc: Greg KH

kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists

2007-10-12T19:48:11+00:00

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 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Ben Collins 
Cc: Michael Wu 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2007-10-12T02:40:14+00:00

* '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