[RESEND PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: Fix module autoload

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 09:38:34 EST


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/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.ko | grep alias
$

After this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,sead3-lcdC*
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,sead3-lcd
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,malta-lcdC*
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,malta-lcd
alias: of:N*T*Cimg,boston-lcdC*
alias: of:N*T*Cimg,boston-lcd

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

Hello Greg,

This is another re-send of a patch that was previously posted in [0]
and [1] but were never picked. I'm sending it to you as suggested by
Dmitry [2].

[0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/2/394
[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/10/977
[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/16/840

Best regards,
Javier

drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c
index 83f1439e57fd..25306fa27251 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id img_ascii_lcd_matches[] = {
{ .compatible = "mti,sead3-lcd", .data = &sead3_config },
{ /* sentinel */ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, img_ascii_lcd_matches);

/**
* img_ascii_lcd_scroll() - scroll the display by a character
--
2.9.3