From 2f632369ab795ebadc1a12a609e5bd4f80f31924 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:17:02 -0800 Subject: modpost: don't add a trailing wildcard for OF module aliases Commit ac551828993e ("modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard") removed the wildcard at the end of the I2C module aliases because I2C devices have no IDs so the aliases are just arbitrary device names. This is also true for OF modaliases since a compatible string is used to define a specific IP hardware block. So the modalias should match a specific compatible string and not attempt to match a compatible string whose name matches the beginning of another one. For example, the following driver module: $ modinfo cros_ec_keyb | grep alias alias: platform:cros-ec-keyb alias: of:N*T*Cgoogle,cros-ec-keyb* will be tried to be loaded for an alias of:N*T*Cgoogle,cros-ec-keyb-v2 but there could be a different driver that supports the device for that compatible string so it's better to remove the trailing wildcard for OF. Also, remove the word "always" from the add_wildcard() function comment since that was carried from the time where a wildcard was always added at the end of the module alias for all the devices. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Suggested-by: Brian Norris Reviewed-by: Sjoerd Simons Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c index 8adca4406198..161dd0d67da8 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c +++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ do { \ sprintf(str + strlen(str), "*"); \ } while(0) -/* Always end in a wildcard, for future extension */ +/* End in a wildcard, for future extension */ static inline void add_wildcard(char *str) { int len = strlen(str); @@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ static int do_of_entry (const char *filename, void *symval, char *alias) if (isspace (*tmp)) *tmp = '_'; - add_wildcard(alias); return 1; } ADD_TO_DEVTABLE("of", of_device_id, do_of_entry); -- cgit v1.2.3