Re: [PATCH 4.0 050/105] i2c: hix5hd2: Fix modalias to make module auto-loading work

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 04:23:02PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 13:35 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Make the modalias match driver name, this is required to make module
> > auto-loading work.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-hix5hd2.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-hix5hd2.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-hix5hd2.c
> > @@ -554,4 +554,4 @@ module_platform_driver(hix5hd2_i2c_drive
> >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Hix5hd2 I2C Bus driver");
> >  MODULE_AUTHOR("Wei Yan <sledge.yanwei@xxxxxxxxxx>");
> >  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:i2c-hix5hd2");
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:hix5hd2-i2c");
> 
> How does this work?

Like all platform module aliases do, this isn't a new feature...

greg k-h
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