Re: [PATCH 4/6] clk: qcom: apss-ipq6018: add MODULE_ALIAS

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 13:05, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11/07/2022 12:47, Robert Marko wrote:
> > Add MODULE_ALIAS so that driver will be autoloaded if built as a module.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/clk/qcom/apss-ipq6018.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/qcom/apss-ipq6018.c b/drivers/clk/qcom/apss-ipq6018.c
> > index f2f502e2d5a4..963c69f2c0c2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/qcom/apss-ipq6018.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/qcom/apss-ipq6018.c
> > @@ -101,5 +101,6 @@ static struct platform_driver apss_ipq6018_driver = {
> >
> >  module_platform_driver(apss_ipq6018_driver);
> >
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:qcom,apss-ipq6018-clk");
>
> That's not correct alias (no commas) and usually alias is not needed at
> all. If you need one, please explain why it is needed. Module
> autoloading works fine without aliases...

Hi Krzysztof,
alias is required here as the driver does not use a DT compatible but
is registered
by the APCS driver, if built as a module, it won't get autoloaded
without an alias.

I can only fix up the driver name here and in APCS first to have an
alias without commas.

Regards,
Robert
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof



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