netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: wan: slic_ds26522: add SPI device ID table to fix module autoload

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:12:37 -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 1/2] net: wan: slic_ds26522: add SPI device ID table to
 fix module autoload

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:55:40 -0300

> If the driver is built as a module, module alias information isn't filled
> so the module won't be autoloaded. Add a SPI device ID table and use the
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro so the information is exported in the module.
> 
> Before this patch:
> 
> $ modinfo drivers/net/wan/slic_ds26522.ko | grep alias
> $
> 
> After this patch:
> 
> $ modinfo drivers/net/wan/slic_ds26522.ko | grep alias
> alias:          spi:ds26522
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>

Applied.