platform: prefix MODALIAS with "platform:"

[mv-sheeva.git] / drivers / base / platform.c

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index eb84d9d44645c43b3205b31cdd50d9a1654b3b4c..9bfc434d132734c759fcfabac43cc11b3835f994 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -160,11 +160,6 @@ static void platform_device_release(struct device *dev)
  *
  *     Create a platform device object which can have other objects attached
  *     to it, and which will have attached objects freed when it is released.
- *
- *     This device will be marked as not supporting hotpluggable drivers; no
- *     device add/remove uevents will be generated.  In the unusual case that
- *     the device isn't being dynamically allocated as a legacy "probe the
- *     hardware" driver, infrastructure code should reverse this marking.
  */
 struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, unsigned int id)
 {
@@ -177,12 +172,6 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, unsigned int id)
                pa->pdev.id = id;
                device_initialize(&pa->pdev.dev);
                pa->pdev.dev.release = platform_device_release;
-
-               /* prevent hotplug "modprobe $(MODALIAS)" from causing trouble in
-                * legacy probe-the-hardware drivers, which don't properly split
-                * out device enumeration logic from drivers.
-                */
-               pa->pdev.dev.uevent_suppress = 1;
        }
 
        return pa ? &pa->pdev : NULL;
@@ -360,7 +349,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregister);
  *     This function creates a simple platform device that requires minimal
  *     resource and memory management. Canned release function freeing
  *     memory allocated for the device allows drivers using such devices
- *     to be unloaded iwithout waiting for the last reference to the device
+ *     to be unloaded without waiting for the last reference to the device
  *     to be dropped.
  *
  *     This interface is primarily intended for use with legacy drivers
@@ -530,7 +519,7 @@ static ssize_t
 modalias_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *a, char *buf)
 {
        struct platform_device  *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
-       int len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", pdev->name);
+       int len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "platform:%s\n", pdev->name);
 
        return (len >= PAGE_SIZE) ? (PAGE_SIZE - 1) : len;
 }
@@ -546,7 +535,7 @@ static int platform_uevent(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp,
        struct platform_device  *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
 
        envp[0] = buffer;
-       snprintf(buffer, buffer_size, "MODALIAS=%s", pdev->name);
+       snprintf(buffer, buffer_size, "MODALIAS=platform:%s", pdev->name);
        return 0;
 }