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    [PATCH] EISA bus MODALIAS attributes support · 07563c71
    Michael Tokarev authored
    Add modalias attribute support for the almost forgotten now EISA bus and
    (at least some) EISA-aware modules.
    
    The modalias entry looks like (for an 3c509 NIC):
    
     eisa:sTCM5093
    
    and the in-module alias like:
    
     eisa:sTCM5093*
    
    The patch moves struct eisa_device_id declaration from include/linux/eisa.h
    to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h (so that the former now #includes the
    latter), adds proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, ...) statements for all
    drivers with EISA IDs I found (some drivers already have that DEVICE_TABLE
    declared), and adds recognision of __mod_eisa_device_table to
    scripts/mod/file2alias.c so that proper modules.alias will be generated.
    
    There's no support for /lib/modules/$kver/modules.eisamap, as it's not used
    by any existing tools, and because with in-kernel modalias mechanism those
    maps are obsolete anyway.
    
    The rationale for this patch is:
    
     a) to make EISA bus to act as other busses with modalias
        support, to unify driver loading
    
     b) to foget about EISA finally - with this patch, kernel
        (who still supports EISA) will be the only one who knows
        how to choose the necessary drivers for this bus ;)
    
    [akpm@osdl.org: fix the kbuild bit]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
    Acked-the-net-bits-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
    Acked-the-tulip-bit-by: default avatarValerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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