linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers

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Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:09:13 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information in
 missing drivers

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 02:04:19PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The I2C core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "i2c:<client name"
> regardless if the driver later is match using the I2C id_table or the
> of_match_table. So the driver needs to export the I2C table and this
> be built into the module or udev won't have the necessary information
> to auto load the correct module when the device is added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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