[V2,1/2] powerpc: Add module autoloading based on CPU features

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jul 22 15:50:42 AEST 2016


On Tue, 2016-19-07 at 04:03:52 UTC, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>
> 
> This patch provides the necessary infrastructure to allow drivers
> to be automatically loaded via UDEV. It implements the minimum
> required to be able to use module_cpu_feature_match to trigger
> the GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE mechanisms.
> 
> The features exposed are a mirror of the cpu_user_features
> (converted to an offset from a mask). This decision was made to
> ensure that the behavior between features for module loading and
> userspace are consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/4a1202765ddf4e5bb3143c0a85

cheers


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