linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc: Fix module autoload for rtc-{ab8500,max8997,s5m} drivers

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:23:15 +0200
From:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Luis de Bethencourt <luis.bg@...sung.com>,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@...sung.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Fix module autoload for rtc-{ab8500,max8997,s5m}
 drivers

Hello Andrey,

On 08/27/2015 02:20 PM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> 2015-08-27 13:34 GMT+03:00 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>:
>> These platform drivers have a platform device ID table but the module
>> alias information is not created so module autoloading will not work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c  | 1 +
>>  drivers/rtc/rtc-max8997.c | 1 +
>>  drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c     | 1 +
>>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c
>> index 133d2e2e1a25..8537d1e3a995 100644
>> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c
>> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c
>> @@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ static const struct platform_device_id ab85xx_rtc_ids[] = {
>>         { "ab8500-rtc", (kernel_ulong_t)&ab8500_rtc_ops, },
>>         { "ab8540-rtc", (kernel_ulong_t)&ab8540_rtc_ops, },
> 
> Completely irrelevant, but this array should have an empty terminating element.
>

You are right, it's missing a sentinel indeed. But
that change should be done in a separate patch.
 
>>  };
>> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, ab85xx_rtc_ids);
>>

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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