Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1211488

Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module alias information

From Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module alias information
Date 2015-08-22 20:00 +0200
Message-ID <q0lfb-Ow-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <pZs93-65q-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <pZsiJ-6gT-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


On 20/08/15 08:07, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The SPI core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "spi:<modalias>"
> regardless of the mechanism that was used to register the device
> (i.e: OF or board code) and the table that is used later to match
> the driver with the device (i.e: SPI id table or OF match table).
> 
> So drivers needs to export the SPI id table and this be built into
> the module or udev won't have the necessary information to autoload
> the needed driver module when the device is added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.

This is too late for the upcoming merge window so it will be queued up for
the next one.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> ---
> 
>  drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> index 8e658f736e1f..4dfb372d2fec 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static const struct spi_device_id hmc5843_id[] = {
>  	{ "hmc5983", HMC5983_ID },
>  	{ }
>  };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(spi, hmc5843_id);
>  
>  static struct spi_driver hmc5843_driver = {
>  		.driver = {
> 

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module alias information Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-08-20 09:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module  alias information Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2015-08-22 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module  alias information Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-09-01 01:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module  alias information Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2015-09-05 18:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module  alias information Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-09-06 01:40 +0200

csiph-web