linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: tango: Fix module autoload

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:27:30 +0200
From:   Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        "Zhang Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: tango: Fix module autoload

On 14/10/2016 16:35, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module
> alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered
> device with the corresponding module.
> 
> Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro.
> 
> Before this patch:
> 
> $ modinfo drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.ko | grep alias
> $
> 
> After this patch:
> 
> $ modinfo drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.ko | grep alias
> alias:          of:N*T*Csigma,smp8758-thermalC*
> alias:          of:N*T*Csigma,smp8758-thermal
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.c
> index 201304aeafeb..4e67795cb6ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.c
> @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id tango_sensor_ids[] = {
>  	},
>  	{ /* sentinel */ }
>  };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, tango_sensor_ids);

Thanks for fixing it :-)

Acked-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com>

Regards.