Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: menz127: add support for 16Z034 and 16Z037 GPIO controllers

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin
<dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I added this new MODULE_ALIAS() because it is the mechanism that previous contributors
> used to enable autoloading of mcb device drivers. After reading your comment,
> I decided to investigate further how the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro is used and processed.
> I discovered that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(mcb, ...) was being ignored by the kernel build
> system. For this reason, I'm preparing a new patch to add support for MCB devices
> in file2alias.
>
> Therefore, I will send a V3 patch that simply removes these new MODULE_ALIAS() entries,
> and another patch to add support for automatically generating module aliases based on
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS().

Excellent, thanks for doing this!

Yours,
Linus Walleij