[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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