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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/platform.c15
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index 869ff8c0014..9bfc434d132 100644
--- 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;
@@ -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;
}