linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload

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Message-ID: <cca95b94-82fc-ff40-76af-bfce8db9bfb4@osg.samsung.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:32:14 -0300
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload

Hello Linus,

On 10/21/2016 09:55 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
> <javier@....samsung.com> 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/gpio/gpio-ts4800.ko | grep alias
>> $
>>
>> After this patch:
>>
>> $ modinfo drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4800.ko | grep alias
>> alias:          of:N*T*Ctechnologic,ts4800-gpioC*
>> alias:          of:N*T*Ctechnologic,ts4800-gpio
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> 
> Patch applied for fixes.
>

Thanks, I guess this also applies to Patch 1/2?
 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 

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