linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: menz127: add support for 16Z034 and 16Z037 GPIO controllers

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaA0YqZ6BxUtMVjvXVoR7oM8u6=gRxXAfN4JHPv8NWgtA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:54:06 +0100
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@...gon.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, brgl@...ev.pl, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: menz127: add support for 16Z034 and 16Z037 GPIO controllers

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin
<dev-josejavier.rodriguez@...gon.com> wrote:

> I added this new MODULE_ALIAS() because it is the mechanism that previous contributors
> used to enable autoloading of mcb device drivers. After reading your comment,
> I decided to investigate further how the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro is used and processed.
> I discovered that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(mcb, ...) was being ignored by the kernel build
> system. For this reason, I'm preparing a new patch to add support for MCB devices
> in file2alias.
>
> Therefore, I will send a V3 patch that simply removes these new MODULE_ALIAS() entries,
> and another patch to add support for automatically generating module aliases based on
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS().

Excellent, thanks for doing this!

Yours,
Linus Walleij