On 09/08/17 11:58, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hi Kieran, > > On 08/09/2017 12:29 PM, Kieran Bingham wrote: >> Hi Javier, >> >> Thankyou for the patch > > You are welcome. > >> On 09/08/17 10:37, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >>> The I2C core always reports a MODALIAS of the form i2c:<foo> even if the >>> device was registered via OF, and the driver is only exporting the OF ID >>> table entries as module aliases. >>> >>> So if the driver is built as module, autoload won't work since udev/kmod >>> won't be able to match the registered OF device with its driver module. >> >> Good catch, and perhaps I should have known better :D >> >> I've only worked on this driver as a built-in so far :-) #BadExcuses >> > > A better excuse I think is that after all these years, one would had thought > that the I2C OF modalias issue would had been finally fixed, but not yet :) Quite! Let's try to bubble that back up the todo list. Now - where did I put my free time. I'm sure I left it around here somewhere :-) -- Kieran
