Re: [PATCH v2] hwrng: meson: Fix module autoload for OF registration
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 23:41:13 EST
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:51:17PM -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/char/hw_random/meson-rng.ko | grep alias
> alias: platform:meson-rng
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.ko | grep alias
> alias: platform:meson-rng
> alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson-rngC*
> alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson-rng
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied. Thanks.
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