1. 04 May, 2008 3 commits
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      kconfig-language.txt: remove bogus hint · 2cb1e125
      Adrian Bunk authored
      For the use case the hint describe a simple dependency is
      enough.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      2cb1e125
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      c4143a83
    • Jean Delvare's avatar
      modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard · ac551828
      Jean Delvare authored
      Not all device types need a wildcard at the end of their module
      aliases. In particular, for i2c module aliases, the trailing wildcard
      is not only unneeded, it could also cause the wrong driver to be
      loaded.
      
      As I2C devices have no IDs, i2c module aliases are simple, arbitrary
      device names. For example:
      
      $ /sbin/modinfo lm90
      filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.25-git18/kernel/drivers/hwmon/lm90.ko
      author:         Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
      description:    LM90/ADM1032 driver
      license:        GPL
      vermagic:       2.6.25-git18 mod_unload
      depends:        hwmon
      alias:          i2c:lm90*
      alias:          i2c:adm1032*
      alias:          i2c:lm99*
      alias:          i2c:lm86*
      alias:          i2c:max6657*
      alias:          i2c:adt7461*
      alias:          i2c:max6680*
      $
      
      This would cause trouble if one I2C chip name matches the beginning of
      another I2C chip name and both chips are supported by different
      drivers. For example, an i2c device named lm9042 would cause the lm90
      driver to be loaded, while it doesn't support that device. This case
      has yet to be seen in practice, but still, I'd like to fix it now. The
      cleanest fix is to remove the trailing wildcard from i2c module aliases.
      
      Here's a patch doing this.
      
      Not all device type aliases need a trailing wildcard, in particular
      the i2c aliases don't. Don't add a wildcard by default in do_table(),
      instead let each device type handler add it if needed.
      
      I have tested types acpi, dmi, eisa, i2c, ide, ieee1394, input, pci,
      pcmcia, platform, pnp, scsi, serio, ssb and usb. Other types (ccw, of,
      vio, parisc, sdio and virtio) are untested.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarJochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      ac551828
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