On 08/09/2017 01:05 PM, Kieran Bingham wrote: > 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 :-) > We are getting there though. I'm just waiting for the patches in this [0] series to land and then I'll be able to post the I2C core uevent modalias patch. I've asked Wolfram if he can at least pick the driver patches [1], but he didn't answer me yet... [0]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg588431.html [1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1457427.html Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement Red Hat
