[i2c] [patch 2.6.25-rc8] i2c: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug

[Jean Delvare]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:49:09 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:54:07 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>
> > > 
> > > Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform
> > > modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the
> > > hotpluggable I2C platform drivers, to allow module auto loading.
> > > 
> > > [ db: add some more drivers ]
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/i2c/busses/...
> > >  17 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > OK... Is this a regression we need to fix in 2.6.25, or can this patch
> > wait until 2.6.26?
> 
> It was a regresssion as of 2.6.24, for 200+ drivers;
> every platform_bus driver used have hotplug/coldplug
> support, but that patch stopped that from working.
> 
> The thing is, that had only been working for a few
> releases at that time, so not many folk were relying
> on it yet.  They would just have been able to start
> doing so when that mechanism stopped working.
> 
> So I can't see a rush to get this into 2.6.25 now.
> I think the 200+ drivers will hotplug/coldplug again
> in 2.6.26 ... I've pushed almost a hundred such driver
> updates by now (sigh).

OK, patch queued up for 2.6.26, thanks.

-- 
Jean Delvare