[PATCH] create modalias file in sysfs for bus vio

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Tue Jan 22 19:33:28 EST 2008


Create /sys/bus/vio/devices/*/modalias file to allow autoloading
of modules. modalias files are already present for many other bus types.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -296,9 +296,24 @@ static ssize_t devspec_show(struct devic
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", of_node ? of_node->full_name : "none");
 }
 
+static ssize_t modalias_show (struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+			      char *buf)
+{
+	struct device_node *of_node = dev->archdata.of_node;
+	const char *compat;
+	int i = 0;
+
+	if (of_node) {
+		compat = of_get_property(of_node, "compatible", &i);
+		i = sprintf (buf, "vio:T%sS%s\n", of_node->type, compat ? compat : "");
+	}
+	return i;
+}
+
 static struct device_attribute vio_dev_attrs[] = {
 	__ATTR_RO(name),
 	__ATTR_RO(devspec),
+	__ATTR_RO(modalias),
 	__ATTR_NULL
 };
 



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