Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Oct 21 2016 - 08:55:50 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/gpio/gpio-ts4800.ko | grep alias
> $
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4800.ko | grep alias
> alias: of:N*T*Ctechnologic,ts4800-gpioC*
> alias: of:N*T*Ctechnologic,ts4800-gpio
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied for fixes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij