On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Loading the tca8418 driver as a module on a device tree based system needs
> a MODULE_ALIAS because the driver name does not match the automatic
> name generation rules of a 'compatible' entry on i2c bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <h...@goldelico.com>
Applied, thank you.
> ---
> drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
> b/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
> index 55c1530..3556360 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
> @@ -392,6 +392,11 @@ static const struct of_device_id tca8418_dt_ids[] = {
> { }
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, tca8418_dt_ids);
> +/* the device tree based i2c loader looks for
> + * "i2c:" + second_component_of(property("compatible"))
> + * and therefore we need an alias to be found.
> + */
> +MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:tca8418");
> #endif
>
> static struct i2c_driver tca8418_keypad_driver = {
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
--
Dmitry
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