Re: [PATCH] ata: pata_macio: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver

From: Luis de Bethencourt
Date: Tue Sep 15 2015 - 12:35:22 EST


On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:52:10AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:45:52PM +0200, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> > This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module
> > alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This patch adds the missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() for OF to export
> > that information so modules have the correct aliases built-in and
> > autoloading works correctly.
> >
> > A longer explanation by Javier Canillas can be found here:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/30/519
>
> Can you please include that in the patch description? Or at least add
> Link: tag? Also, should this be routed through -stable?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun

Tejun,

Sent a second version.

Thank you very much for the review,
Luis
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