[PATCH v2 0/5] Support autoloading of non-PCI drivers

[Thierry Reding]

From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>

This series introduces a new configuration section, OutputClass, which
can be used to match an output device against a set of attributes and
pass in additional configuration. The idea is that each DDX module for
output drivers can ship configuration snippets that give a hint as to
what devices they support.

Patch 1 modifies xf86MatchDriverFromFiles() to behave more like the
other driver enumeration functions. This makes the code in subsequent
patches simpler.

Patch 2 is preparatory work to store the name of a device's kernel
driver for later use.

Patch 3 adds the new OutputClass section that for now only supports
matching by kernel driver name and providing the name of the DDX module
to load for a matching device.

Patch 4 in this series makes use of these configuration snippets to
auto-load drivers for a particular device.

Patch 5 makes an error message more readable and consistent with code
introduced in an earlier patch.

Changes in v2:
- address review comments from Aaron Plattner:
  - drivers matched by OutputClass take precedence over other drivers
  - fix typos in manpage, start sentences on new lines
  - make error messages more readable

Thierry

Thierry Reding (5):
  xfree86: Make driver matching consistent
  xfree86: Store kernel driver name in platform device attribute
  xfree86: Introduce OutputClass configuration
  xfree86: Support driver loading via OutputClass
  xfree86: Make error message more readable

 hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c         |   2 +-
 hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c             |  24 ++---
 hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.h             |   5 +-
 hw/xfree86/common/xf86platformBus.c        |  85 ++++++++++++++-
 hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man               |  77 +++++++++++++
 hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_platform.c |  17 ++-
 hw/xfree86/parser/Makefile.am              |   1 +
 hw/xfree86/parser/OutputClass.c            | 167 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 hw/xfree86/parser/configProcs.h            |   5 +
 hw/xfree86/parser/read.c                   |   6 ++
 hw/xfree86/parser/write.c                  |   2 +
 hw/xfree86/parser/xf86Parser.h             |   9 ++
 include/hotplug.h                          |   2 +
 13 files changed, 378 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hw/xfree86/parser/OutputClass.c

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