Re: [PATCH] rtc: asm9260: fix module autoload

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Wed Oct 19 2016 - 02:47:54 EST


On 14/10/2016 at 10:15:35 -0300, 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/rtc/rtc-asm9260.ko | grep alias
> $
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/rtc/rtc-asm9260.ko | grep alias
> alias: of:N*T*Calphascale,asm9260-rtcC*
> alias: of:N*T*Calphascale,asm9260-rtc
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-asm9260.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
Applied, thanks.

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