On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Javier Martinez Canillas 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/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 <[email protected]> > --- > > drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Acked-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]> > 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 = { -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
