On Mon, 2 May 2016 17:35:39 +0200 Philipp Zabel <p.za...@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Since the wildcard at the end of OF module aliases is gone, autoloading
> of modules that don't match a device's last (most generic) compatible value
> fails.
>
> For example the CODA960 VPU on i.MX6Q has the SoC specific compatible
> "fsl,imx6q-vpu" and the generic compatible "cnm,coda960". Since the driver
> currently only works with knowledge about the SoC specific integration,
> it doesn't list "cnm,cod960" in the module device table.
> This results in the device compatible
> "of:NvpuT<NULL>Cfsl,imx6q-vpuCcnm,coda960" not matching the module alias
> "of:N*T*Cfsl,imx6q-vpu" anymore, whereas before commit 2f632369ab79
> ("modpost: don't add a trailing wildcard for OF module aliases") it
> matched the module alias "of:N*T*Cfsl,imx6q-vpu*".
>
> This patch adds two module aliases for each compatible, one without the
> wildcard and one with "C*" appended.
>
> $ modinfo coda | grep imx6q
> alias: of:N*T*Cfsl,imx6q-vpuC*
> alias: of:N*T*Cfsl,imx6q-vpu
I added this:
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> [4.5+]
