On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:13:24PM +0200, Per Svennerbrandt wrote:
> * Per Liden ([email protected]) wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > Now, with the 2.6.12-rc3 kernel, and a patch for module-init-tools, the
> > > USB hotplug program can be written with a simple one line shell script:
> > > modprobe $MODALIAS
> >
> > Nice, but why not just convert all this to a call to
> > request_module($MODALIAS)? Seems to me like the natural thing to do.
>
> I actually have a pretty hackish proof-of-consept patch that does
> basicly that, and have been running it on my systems for the past five
> months or so, if anybody's interested.
>
> Along with it I also have a patch witch exports the module aliases for
> PCI and USB devices through sysfs. With it the "coldplugging" of a
> system (module wise) can be reduced to pretty much:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for DEV in /sys/bus/{pci,usb}/devices/*; do
> modprobe `cat $DEV/modalias`
> done
Ok, as you never posted your patch, I had to do it myself :)
Here's 3 patches that I just added to my trees, and will show up in the
next -mm release. They create the modalias file for usb and pci
devices, and add the MODALIAS env variable for the pci hotplug event.
thanks,
greg k-h
Subject: PCI: add MODALIAS to hotplug event for pci devices
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/pci/hotplug.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/pci/hotplug.c 2005-05-12 14:28:39.000000000 -0700
+++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/pci/hotplug.c 2005-05-12 14:28:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@
if ((buffer_size - length <= 0) || (i >= num_envp))
return -ENOMEM;
+ envp[i++] = scratch;
+ length += scnprintf (scratch, buffer_size - length,
+ "MODALIAS=pci:v%08Xd%08Xsv%08Xsd%08Xbc%02Xsc%02Xi%02x\n",
+ pdev->vendor, pdev->device,
+ pdev->subsystem_vendor, pdev->subsystem_device,
+ (u8)(pdev->class >> 16), (u8)(pdev->class >> 8),
+ (u8)(pdev->class));
+ if ((buffer_size - length <= 0) || (i >= num_envp))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
envp[i] = NULL;
return 0;
Subject: PCI: add modalias sysfs file for pci devices
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c 2005-05-12 14:28:25.000000000 -0700
+++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c 2005-05-12 14:28:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@
return (str - buf);
}
+static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev, char *buf)
+{
+ struct pci_dev *pci_dev = to_pci_dev(dev);
+
+ return sprintf(buf, "pci:v%08Xd%08Xsv%08Xsd%08Xbc%02Xsc%02Xi%02x\n",
+ pci_dev->vendor, pci_dev->device,
+ pci_dev->subsystem_vendor, pci_dev->subsystem_device,
+ (u8)(pci_dev->class >> 16), (u8)(pci_dev->class >> 8),
+ (u8)(pci_dev->class));
+}
+
struct device_attribute pci_dev_attrs[] = {
__ATTR_RO(resource),
__ATTR_RO(vendor),
@@ -82,6 +93,7 @@
__ATTR_RO(class),
__ATTR_RO(irq),
__ATTR_RO(local_cpus),
+ __ATTR_RO(modalias),
__ATTR_NULL,
};
Subject: USB: add modalias sysfs file for usb devices
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c 2005-05-12 14:28:59.000000000 -0700
+++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c 2005-05-12 14:29:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -286,6 +286,39 @@
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(interface, S_IRUGO, show_interface_string, NULL);
+static ssize_t show_modalias(struct device *dev, char *buf)
+{
+ struct usb_interface *intf;
+ struct usb_device *udev;
+
+ intf = to_usb_interface(dev);
+ udev = interface_to_usbdev(intf);
+ if (udev->descriptor.bDeviceClass == 0) {
+ struct usb_host_interface *alt = intf->cur_altsetting;
+
+ return sprintf(buf, "usb:v%04Xp%04Xd%04Xdc%02Xdsc%02Xdp%02Xic%02Xisc%02Xip%02X\n",
+ le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.idVendor),
+ le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.idProduct),
+ le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.bcdDevice),
+ udev->descriptor.bDeviceClass,
+ udev->descriptor.bDeviceSubClass,
+ udev->descriptor.bDeviceProtocol,
+ alt->desc.bInterfaceClass,
+ alt->desc.bInterfaceSubClass,
+ alt->desc.bInterfaceProtocol);
+ } else {
+ return sprintf(buf, "usb:v%04Xp%04Xd%04Xdc%02Xdsc%02Xdp%02Xic*isc*ip*\n",
+ le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.idVendor),
+ le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.idProduct),
+ le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.bcdDevice),
+ udev->descriptor.bDeviceClass,
+ udev->descriptor.bDeviceSubClass,
+ udev->descriptor.bDeviceProtocol);
+ }
+
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(modalias, S_IRUGO, show_modalias, NULL);
+
static struct attribute *intf_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_bInterfaceNumber.attr,
&dev_attr_bAlternateSetting.attr,
@@ -293,6 +326,7 @@
&dev_attr_bInterfaceClass.attr,
&dev_attr_bInterfaceSubClass.attr,
&dev_attr_bInterfaceProtocol.attr,
+ &dev_attr_modalias.attr,
NULL,
};
static struct attribute_group intf_attr_grp = {
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