linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:40:33 +0200
From:	Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>
To:	ext Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	York Sun <yorksun@...escale.com>, wsa@...-dreams.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@...co.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg

Hi!

On 17/06/15 18:03, ext Paul Bolle wrote:
>> You do not see the platform_device, because there are no users yet, put
>> > this MODULE_ALIAS() is perfectly fine, it will allow automatic module loading
>> > in non-DT case.
> Do you mean that it will allow automatic module loading once the patch
> that adds a struct platform_device with a "i2c-mux-reg" name lands?

Any platform code which will register the platform_device will trigger uevent and
udevd will be able to find the module with this macro. This is a legacy alternative
to device-tree approach.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
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