On 10/17/2016 09:51 PM, 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>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove unrelated changes added by mistake. Suggested by Jason Gunthorpe.
>
> drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c
> index 58bef39f7286..51864a509be7 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id meson_rng_of_match[] = {
> { .compatible = "amlogic,meson-rng", },
> {},
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, meson_rng_of_match);
>
> static struct platform_driver meson_rng_driver = {
> .probe = meson_rng_probe,
>
Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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