[PATCH v2] perf/smmuv3: Add MODULE_ALIAS for module auto loading

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue Aug 15 07:10:49 PDT 2023


On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:16:42 +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong at hisilicon.com>
> 
> On my ACPI based arm64 server, if the SMMUv3 PMU is configured as
> module it won't be loaded automatically after booting even if the
> device has already been scanned and added. It's because the module
> lacks a platform alias, the uevent mechanism and userspace tools
> like udevd make use of this to find the target driver module of the
> device. This patch adds the missing platform alias of the module,
> then module will be loaded automatically if device exists.
> 
> [...]

Applied to will (for-next/perf), thanks!

[1/1] perf/smmuv3: Add MODULE_ALIAS for module auto loading
      https://git.kernel.org/will/c/1b0e3ea9301a

Cheers,
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Will

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