Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: pcm179x: Add I2C interface driver

[Johan Hovold]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:32:08PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:11:44PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:25:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This does seem like something that the modules code should be able to
> > > cope with - we have a reference from the driver struct to the table
> > > which you'd really expect it to be using.  We already have some issues
> > > there with userspace not handling multiple modaliases terribly well IIRC.
> 
> > That reference is only used for matching, while the aliases are
> > generated from the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE macro (and elf magic).
> 
> Sure, but there's no reason we can't change that.

Might take quite a bit of work to the modpost tools to achieve, though.

Johan