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The kernel provides the macro MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() where driver authors can specify their device type and their array of device_ids and thereby trigger the generation of the appropriate MODULE_ALIAS() output. This is opposed to having to specify one MODULE_ALIAS() for each device. The WMI device type is currently not supported. While using MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() does increase the complexity as well as spreading out the implementation across the kernel, it does come with some benefits too; * It makes different drivers look more similar; if you can specify the array of device_ids any device type specific input to MODULE_ALIAS() will automatically be generated for you. * It helps each driver avoid keeping multiple versions of the same information in sync. That is, both the array of device_ids and the potential multitude of MODULE_ALIAS()'s. Add WMI support to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() by adding info about struct wmi_device_id in devicetable-offsets.c and add a WMI entry point in file2alias.c. The type argument for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name) is wmi. Suggested-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.