netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: wan: slic_ds26522: Export OF module alias information

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Message-Id: <20161014.101243.1068410757449553130.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:12:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     javier@....samsung.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        qiang.zhao@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: wan: slic_ds26522: Export OF module alias
 information

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:55:41 -0300

> When the device is registered via OF, the OF table is used to match the
> driver instead of the SPI device ID table, but the entries in the later
> are used as aliasses to load the module if the driver was not built-in.
> 
> This is because the SPI core always reports an SPI module alias instead
> of an OF one, but that could change so it's better to always export it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>

Applied.