Re: [PATCH 4/4] mfd: max77686: Export OF module alias information
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 01:55:46 EST
On 12.02.2016 13:30, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> When the device is registered via OF, the OF table is used to match the
> driver instead of the I2C device ID table but the entries in the latter
> are used as aliasses to load the module if the driver was not built-in.
>
> This is because the I2C core always reports an I2C module alias instead
> of an OF one but that could change so it is better to always export it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> drivers/mfd/max77686.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
Makes sense,
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Best regards,
Krzysztof