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/mailbox/mailbox-test.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.ko | grep alias alias: of:N*T*Cmailbox-testC* alias: of:N*T*Cmailbox-test Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com> --- drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c index 9ca96e9db6bf..deb9c61aebb4 100644 --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c @@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id mbox_test_match[] = { { .compatible = "mailbox-test" }, {}, }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mbox_test_match); static struct platform_driver mbox_test_driver = { .driver = { -- 2.7.4