linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module alias information

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Message-ID: <55D8B875.3060200@kernel.org>
Date:	Sat, 22 Aug 2015 18:59:17 +0100
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module
 alias information

On 20/08/15 08:07, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The SPI core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "spi:<modalias>"
> regardless of the mechanism that was used to register the device
> (i.e: OF or board code) and the table that is used later to match
> the driver with the device (i.e: SPI id table or OF match table).
> 
> So drivers needs to export the SPI id table and this be built into
> the module or udev won't have the necessary information to autoload
> the needed driver module when the device is added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.

This is too late for the upcoming merge window so it will be queued up for
the next one.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> ---
> 
>  drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> index 8e658f736e1f..4dfb372d2fec 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static const struct spi_device_id hmc5843_id[] = {
>  	{ "hmc5983", HMC5983_ID },
>  	{ }
>  };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(spi, hmc5843_id);
>  
>  static struct spi_driver hmc5843_driver = {
>  		.driver = {
> 

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