linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for module autoload

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:15:58 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@...ev.co.uk>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for
 module autoload

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:09:42PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The Atmel maxtouch DT binding documents that the compatible string for
> the device is "atmel,maxtouch" and the I2C core always reports a module
> alias of the form i2c:alias where alias is the compatible string model:
> 
> $ grep MODALIAS /sys/devices/platform/12e00000.i2c/i2c-8/8-004b/uevent
> MODALIAS=i2c:maxtouch

Do we know why we are not reporting modalias as "of:..." so that
autoloading using the of table works properly?

It sounds like the of matching and modalias is quite a mess at the
moment.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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