From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
To: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>,
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
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH V14 8/9] vfio, platform: add support for ACPI while detecting the reset driver
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:44:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56DEF370.3000904@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DE5E11.3060307@codeaurora.org>
Hi,
On 3/8/2016 12:07 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 3/7/2016 11:46 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
>>> #define module_vfio_reset_handler(compat, acpihid, reset) \
>>>> MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset: dt: " compat); \
>>>> MODULE_ALIAS("vfio-reset: acpi: " acpihid); \
>> My gut feeling is we must not create a dummy alias when the mode
>> (dt/acpi) is not supported/tested. It fills the modinfo section with
>> spurious data, aliases are visible to modinfo, ...
>>
>> So I personally foresee 2 solutions,
>> 1) we create a single alias using acpihid if supported or compat if not.
>> Then even in dt mode we try to load this module through the acpihid
>> alias. Looks weird but should work.
>> 2) We simply move the module alias declaration out of this macro (to the
>> reset module itself), define 2 aliases in case both dt and acpi are
>> supported & tested.
>>
>> My personal preference is 2 I think.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Eric
>>
>
> I agree with your assessment of #2. We are trying to be too smart.
> I'll post a patch with #2 solution.
>
I split patch 8 and 9 from the series and posted a new set here.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg489578.html
--
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-08 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-05 4:34 [PATCH V14 0/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA driver Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 1/9] dma: qcom_bam_dma: move to qcom directory Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:13 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 2/9] dma: hidma: Add Device Tree binding Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:16 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 3/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA management driver Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:16 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 4/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA channel driver Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:17 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 5/9] dma: qcom_hidma: implement lower level hardware interface Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:06 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-11 3:08 ` Okaya
2016-03-11 16:02 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 16:32 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-11 16:44 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 19:29 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 21:59 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-13 16:00 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-14 13:53 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-13 15:59 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-14 13:56 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 6/9] dma: qcom_hidma: add debugfs hooks Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 7/9] dma: qcom_hidma: add support for object hierarchy Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 8/9] vfio, platform: add support for ACPI while detecting the reset driver Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 16:24 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 17:15 ` Eric Auger
2016-02-26 19:21 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-02 18:34 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-03 23:14 ` Eric Auger
2016-03-04 5:20 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-07 4:09 ` Eric Auger
2016-03-07 15:30 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-08 4:46 ` Eric Auger
2016-03-08 5:07 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-08 15:44 ` Sinan Kaya [this message]
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 9/9] vfio, platform: add QTI HIDMA " Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 17:52 ` Eric Auger
2016-02-26 19:05 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-08 10:14 ` [PATCH V14 0/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA driver Christoffer Dall
2016-02-08 14:24 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-08 17:00 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-02-26 16:21 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 16:52 ` Timur Tabi
2016-03-02 18:40 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-03 3:44 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-03 15:22 ` Sinan Kaya
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