linux/scripts/mod
Eric Miao 57fee4a58f platform: introduce module id table for platform devices
Now platform_device is being widely used on SoC processors where the
peripherals are attached to the system bus, which is simple enough.

However, silicon IPs for these SoCs are usually shared heavily across
a family of processors, even products from different companies.  This
makes the original simple driver name based matching insufficient, or
simply not straight-forward.

Introduce a module id table for platform devices, and makes it clear
that a platform driver is able to support some shared IP and handle
slight differences across different platforms (by 'driver_data').
Module alias is handled automatically when a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
is defined.

To not disturb the current platform drivers too much, the matched id
entry is recorded and can be retrieved by platform_get_device_id().

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:24 -07:00
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empty.c
file2alias.c platform: introduce module id table for platform devices 2009-03-24 16:38:24 -07:00
Makefile
mk_elfconfig.c remove the v850 port 2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00
modpost.c Staging: add TAINT_CRAP flag to drivers/staging modules 2008-10-10 15:31:06 -07:00
modpost.h kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds 2008-03-23 21:38:54 +01:00
sumversion.c kbuild: prevent modpost from looking for a .cmd file for a static library linked into a module 2008-10-29 22:02:10 +01:00