[PATCH 1/5] m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 29 September 2014 11:53, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 September 2014 08:36, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) The main urgent issue: broken auto-loading
>> Tracked in the thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-spi/msg01726.html
>> Problem: m25p80.c references spi_nor_ids (from external file)
>> Short-term solution: duplicate IDs in the m25p80.c
>>
>> Ben: just like Brian, I think the patch like this one (
>> [PATCH 1/5] m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80
>> ) is the way to go. However few comments:
>
> I started wondering... would this be possible to fix all m25p80 users
> instead? Make them always specify modalias as "m25p80" and then
> provide platform_data if needed?
>
> Has anyone checked in how many places we use "wrong" (or should I say
> "weird") modaliases? I guess some would need to grep kernel for all
> possible names.

I did some (e)grepping, it seems we have:
1) Only 6 references (modalias) in arch/mips/ath79/
2) About 57 references (compatible) in arch/arm/boot/dts/
3) About 32 references (compatible) in arch/powerpc/boot/dts/

However it seems there is no way to provide platform_data in Device
Tree files. So we have to support compatible (modalias) for now I
guess.

The list (if someone would like to check) of used names in archs:
m25p128 m25p16 m25p32 m25p40 m25p64
mx25l12805d mx25l1606e mx25l25635e mx25l4005a mx25l6405d mx66l51235l
n25q128a11 n25q128a13 n25q512a
s25fl008k s25fl256s1 s25fl512s s25sl064a s25sl12801
sst25vf016b sst25vf032b sst25vf040b sst25wf040
w25q128 w25q256 w25q32 w25q32dw w25q80bl w25x80

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Rafał