Hi Alexander, On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 09:40 +0200, Alexander Sverdlin wrote: > On 17/06/15 18:03, ext Paul Bolle wrote: > >> You do not see the platform_device, because there are no users yet, put > >> > this MODULE_ALIAS() is perfectly fine, it will allow automatic module loading > >> > in non-DT case. > > Do you mean that it will allow automatic module loading once the patch > > that adds a struct platform_device with a "i2c-mux-reg" name lands? > > Any platform code which will register the platform_device will trigger uevent and > udevd will be able to find the module with this macro. This is a legacy alternative > to device-tree approach. That means I've correctly figured out the purpose of this MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" stuff. Because it might actually be documented somewhere but I managed to not stumble on that documentation. With that out of the way: am I right in thinking there's currently no platform code that triggers that uevent for "MODALIAS=platform:i2c-mux-reg"? Because if there's no struct platform_device taking care of that I think this MODULE_ALIAS() should not be added, not yet. Thanks, Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html