[PATCH 0/4] Fedora kernel patch review

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 00:53:54 EST 2010


Provide a modalias entry for VIO devices in sysfs.  I believe
this was another initrd generation bugfix for anaconda.

---
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
index f988672..12a0851 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -294,9 +294,27 @@ static ssize_t devspec_show(struct device *dev,
 	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)
+{
+	const struct vio_dev *vio_dev = to_vio_dev(dev);
+	struct device_node *dn;
+	const char *cp;
+
+	dn = dev->archdata.of_node;
+	if (!dn)
+		return -ENODEV;
+	cp = of_get_property(dn, "compatible", NULL);
+	if (!cp)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	return sprintf(buf, "vio:T%sS%s\n", vio_dev->type, cp);
+}
+
 static struct device_attribute vio_dev_attrs[] = {
 	__ATTR_RO(name),
 	__ATTR_RO(devspec),
+	__ATTR_RO(modalias),
 	__ATTR_NULL
 };



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