Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
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/qualcomm/emac/qcom-emac.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:qcom-emac
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/qcom-emac.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:qcom-emac
alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,fsm9900-emacC*
alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,fsm9900-emac
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas<jav...@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Timur Tabi <ti...@codeaurora.org>
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