From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756716AbcCBSen (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:34:43 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:37086 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755689AbcCBSej (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:34:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH V14 8/9] vfio, platform: add support for ACPI while detecting the reset driver To: Eric Auger , dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, timur@codeaurora.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, cov@codeaurora.org, vinod.koul@intel.com, jcm@redhat.com References: <1454646882-24369-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <1454646882-24369-9-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <56D08843.5020306@linaro.org> Cc: shankerd@codeaurora.org, vikrams@codeaurora.org, agross@codeaurora.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sinan Kaya Message-ID: <56D7323B.4040100@codeaurora.org> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:34:35 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56D08843.5020306@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/26/2016 12:15 PM, Eric Auger wrote: >> -module_init(reset ## _module_init); \ >> > +#define module_vfio_reset_handler(compat, acpihid, reset) \ >> > +MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset:" compat); \ > Here you need to handle alias for hid case I think I'm wondering what happens when Compat or ACPI string is NULL. MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset:" NULL) Would the kernel like it? I'd rather create an alias only when the string is not NULL. Given this is a macro, I believe it won't work. Can you think of any other way in the code to create the alias? -- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project