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-rw-r--r--drivers/of/device.c23
-rw-r--r--include/linux/of_device.h6
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c
index fd5cfad7c403..8a22a253a830 100644
--- a/drivers/of/device.c
+++ b/drivers/of/device.c
@@ -226,6 +226,29 @@ ssize_t of_device_get_modalias(struct device *dev, char *str, ssize_t len)
return tsize;
}
+int of_device_request_module(struct device *dev)
+{
+ char *str;
+ ssize_t size;
+ int ret;
+
+ size = of_device_get_modalias(dev, NULL, 0);
+ if (size < 0)
+ return size;
+
+ str = kmalloc(size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!str)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ of_device_get_modalias(dev, str, size);
+ str[size] = '\0';
+ ret = request_module(str);
+ kfree(str);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_device_request_module);
+
/**
* of_device_uevent - Display OF related uevent information
*/
diff --git a/include/linux/of_device.h b/include/linux/of_device.h
index cc7dd687a89d..e9afbcc8de12 100644
--- a/include/linux/of_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/of_device.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ extern const void *of_device_get_match_data(const struct device *dev);
extern ssize_t of_device_get_modalias(struct device *dev,
char *str, ssize_t len);
+extern int of_device_request_module(struct device *dev);
extern void of_device_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
extern int of_device_uevent_modalias(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
@@ -78,6 +79,11 @@ static inline int of_device_get_modalias(struct device *dev,
return -ENODEV;
}
+static inline int of_device_request_module(struct device *dev)
+{
+ return -ENODEV;
+}
+
static inline int of_device_uevent_modalias(struct device *dev,
struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
{