[PATCH v2] hwrng: meson: Fix module autoload for OF registration
Herbert Xu
herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Mon Oct 24 20:40:06 PDT 2016
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:51:17PM -0300, 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/char/hw_random/meson-rng.ko | grep alias
> alias: platform:meson-rng
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.ko | grep alias
> alias: platform:meson-rng
> alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson-rngC*
> alias: of:N*T*Camlogic,meson-rng
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at osg.samsung.com>
Patch applied. Thanks.
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