On Monday, January 2, 2017 11:03 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>
> The driver has a platform device ID table with multiple device entries,
> each setting a different register address in its driver_data to control
> the WLED brightness.
>
> But the driver doesn't export these as aliases with MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
> when the driver is built as a module, instead it just has a single alias
> using MODULE_ALIAS("platform:da9052-backlight"). That is clearly wrong
> since there isn't a "da9052-backlight" in the platform device ID table,
> so if that device name is used, the device won't even match the driver.
>
> So instead of having a wrong alias, export the ones in the dev ID table.
>
> Before this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.ko | grep alias
> alias: platform:da9052-backlight
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.ko | grep alias
> alias: platform:da9052-wled3
> alias: platform:da9052-wled2
> alias: platform:da9052-wled1
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jingooh...@gmail.com>
Best regards,
Jingoo Han
> ---
>
> drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.c
> b/drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.c
> index fd2be417aa64..49035c12739a 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/da9052_bl.c
> @@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ static const struct platform_device_id
> da9052_wled_ids[] = {
> },
> { },
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, da9052_wled_ids);
>
> static struct platform_driver da9052_wled_driver = {
> .probe = da9052_backlight_probe,
> @@ -182,4 +183,3 @@ module_platform_driver(da9052_wled_driver);
> MODULE_AUTHOR("David Dajun Chen <dc...@diasemi.com>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Backlight driver for DA9052 PMIC");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:da9052-backlight");
> --
> 2.7.4
