[PATCH 2/4] xen: Add module alias to autoload backend drivers

From: Bastian Blank
Date: Wed Jun 29 2011 - 08:40:15 EST


All the Xen backend drivers are assigned to a special bus type
xen-backend. This patch exports xen-backend:* names through modalias and
uevent to autoload them.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 3 ++-
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
index 2ed0b04..bd2f90c 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ static ssize_t devtype_show(struct device *dev,
static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
- return sprintf(buf, "xen:%s\n", to_xenbus_device(dev)->devicetype);
+ return sprintf(buf, "%s:%s\n", dev->bus->name,
+ to_xenbus_device(dev)->devicetype);
}

struct device_attribute xenbus_dev_attrs[] = {
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
index ec510e5..60adf91 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ static int xenbus_uevent_backend(struct device *dev,
if (xdev == NULL)
return -ENODEV;

+ if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=xen-backend:%s", xdev->devicetype))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
/* stuff we want to pass to /sbin/hotplug */
if (add_uevent_var(env, "XENBUS_TYPE=%s", xdev->devicetype))
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.7.5.4

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