On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]> wrote: > If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module > alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered > device with the corresponding module. > > Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro. > > Before this patch: > > $ modinfo drivers/media/rc/meson-ir.ko | grep alias > $ > > After this patch: > > $ modinfo drivers/media/rc/meson-ir.ko | grep alias > alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson-gxbb-irC* > alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson-gxbb-ir > alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson8b-irC* > alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson8b-ir > alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson6-irC* > alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson6-ir > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
