On 2015/7/16 22:19, Paul Bolle wrote: > Hi, > > On do, 2015-07-16 at 19:59 +0800, zhengxing wrote: >> I mean that the use of MODALIAS() in this patch, and I refered to >> tegra_max98090.c(have been upstreamed) that used it like this also. So >> I didn't care the using. > > And I think the same problem with MODULE_ALIAS() can be found in that > driver. Ie, where does the platform device that has a "tegra-snd > -max98090" .name hide? (See the reply I just sent to mark for more > details.) May be that is hidden in some device tree files. MODULE_ALIAS() is used by a driver to announce that it supports such types of devices. And bus enumerator will create those devices by probing hardware or parsing some configuration files. Thanks! Gerry
