Re: [PATCH 2/5] [media] v4l: rcar-fcp: Fix module autoload for OF registration

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 12:08:48 EST


Hi Javier,

Thank you for the patch.

On Monday 17 Oct 2016 12:44:09 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/media/platform/rcar-fcp.ko | grep alias
> alias: rcar-fcp
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.ko | grep alias
> alias: rcar-fcp
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,fcpvC*
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,fcpv
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,fcpfC*
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,fcpf
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c
> b/drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c index f3a3f31cdfa9..7146fc5ef168 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c
> @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id rcar_fcp_of_match[] = {
> { .compatible = "renesas,fcpv" },
> { },
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, rcar_fcp_of_match);
>
> static struct platform_driver rcar_fcp_platform_driver = {
> .probe = rcar_fcp_probe,

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart