Re: [PATCH] dsa: mv88e6352/mv88e6xxx: Add support for Marvell 88E6320 and 88E6321

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:53:23AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On di, 2015-07-07 at 20:38 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6352.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6352.c
>  
> > -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6352");
> >  MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6172");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6176");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6320");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6321");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv88e6352");
> 
> Naive question: there are quite a few similar MODULE_ALIAS() macros in
> drivers/net/dsa. That is, macros using "platform:mv88e6[...]". But I
> couldn't find the struct platform_device's that would, in short, fire
> off the corresponding "MODALIAS=platform:mv88e6[...]" uevent when
> they're created. Where should I look for those struct platform_device's?
> 
Good question. The devices are instantiated from the dsa driver
(net/dsa/dsa.c). I don't really know if the above aliases serve
a practical purpose.  Does anyone else know ?

Guenter
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