On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The I2C core always reports a MODALIAS of the form i2c:<foo> even if the
> device was registered via OF, this means that exporting the OF device ID
> table device aliases in the module is not needed. But in order to change
> how the core reports modaliases to user-space, it's better to export it.
>
> Before this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.ko | grep alias
> alias: i2c:tps65912
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.ko | grep alias
> alias: of:N*T*Cti,tps65912C*
> alias: of:N*T*Cti,tps65912
> alias: i2c:tps65912
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com>
> ---
>
> drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Applied, thanks.
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.c b/drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.c
> index 45871403f995..785d19f6f7c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/tps65912-i2c.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id
> tps65912_i2c_of_match_table[] = {
> { .compatible = "ti,tps65912", },
> { /* sentinel */ }
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, tps65912_i2c_of_match_table);
>
> static int tps65912_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> const struct i2c_device_id *ids)
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