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Commit 57fee4a5 authored by Eric Miao's avatar Eric Miao Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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platform: introduce module id table for platform devices



Now platform_device is being widely used on SoC processors where the
peripherals are attached to the system bus, which is simple enough.

However, silicon IPs for these SoCs are usually shared heavily across
a family of processors, even products from different companies.  This
makes the original simple driver name based matching insufficient, or
simply not straight-forward.

Introduce a module id table for platform devices, and makes it clear
that a platform driver is able to support some shared IP and handle
slight differences across different platforms (by 'driver_data').
Module alias is handled automatically when a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
is defined.

To not disturb the current platform drivers too much, the matched id
entry is recorded and can be retrieved by platform_get_device_id().

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 71b3e0c1
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