Re: [PATCH] staging:iio: Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and MODULE_ALIAS

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Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 11/15/2011 08:45 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 11/15/2011 04:14 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>>> Quite a few iio drivers provide no MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE or
>MODULE_ALIAS or only
>>> provide a MODULE_ALIAS while they have support for multiple device
>ids. This
>>> prevents auto module loading from working correctly.
>>>
>> Sensible patch.  I've never chased this down because I'm cynical and
>> tend to specifically load drivers for my devices.  This will have
>> fuzz all over the place, so you may end up rebasing to get it in.
>> I'd like this to happen asap though as things are moderately quiet at
>> the moment!
>
>I'm don't use module auto loading myself that much, but these kind of
>issues
>tend to spread as previous drivers are used as skeletons for new ones.
>
>In regard to the fuzz, I've collected the IIO patches which were sent
>to GregKH
>but haven't been applied yet[1] and based this patch on top of it.
>
>Btw. I see you have a new email address. Which one should we send
>patches too?
Right now they go to same place anyway so does not matter.
>
>>> This patch fixes it by adding the missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLEs and
>>> MODULE_ALIAS'.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Thanks
>- Lars
>
>
>[1]
>http://git.metafoo.de/?p=linux-2.6;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/iio-queue

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