Re: [PATCH 1/5] [media] v4l: vsp1: Fix module autoload for OF registration

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 12:08:32 EST


Hi Javier,

Thank you for the patch.

On Monday 17 Oct 2016 12:44:08 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/vsp1/vsp1.ko | grep alias
> alias: vsp1
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1.ko | grep alias
> alias: vsp1
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,vsp2C*
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,vsp2
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,vsp1C*
> alias: of:N*T*Crenesas,vsp1
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

> ---
>
> drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c
> b/drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c index 57c713a4e1df..aa237b48ad55
> 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c
> @@ -770,6 +770,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id vsp1_of_match[] = {
> { .compatible = "renesas,vsp2" },
> { },
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, vsp1_of_match);
>
> static struct platform_driver vsp1_platform_driver = {
> .probe = vsp1_probe,

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart