If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered device with the corresponding module.
Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro. Before this patch: $ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf.ko | grep alias alias: acpi*:HISI00B2:* alias: acpi*:HISI00B1:* After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf.ko | grep alias alias: acpi*:HISI00B2:* alias: acpi*:HISI00B1:* alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2C* alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2 alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1C* alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1 Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_main.c index 8d70377f6624..8ea3d95fa483 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_main.c @@ -2751,6 +2751,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id g_dsaf_match[] = { {.compatible = "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2"}, {} }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, g_dsaf_match); static struct platform_driver g_dsaf_driver = { .probe = hns_dsaf_probe, -- 2.7.4