2015-05-08 22:56 GMT+08:00 zhangfei <zhangfei.gao@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> On 05/08/2015 08:50 AM, Axel Lin wrote:
>>
>> Make the modalias match driver name, this is required to make module
>> auto-loading work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Thanks Axel
>
> Could you also share the info what's the condition of auto-loading module.
>
> What I am test here is change the names works.
> - .name = "hix5hd2-i2c",
> + .name = "i2c-hix5hd2",
>
> Change MODULE_ALIAS("platform:hix5hd2-i2c") does not works here.
> Do I make some mistake?
The driver name needs to match the platform device name.
I have no idea why you change the driver name and it still work.
In drivers/base/platform.c, the platform_uevent sends uevenet with
MODALIAS=platform:pdev->name. so the MODULE_ALIAS needs to match pdev->name.
Maybe forgot running depmod -a?
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