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Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for module autoload

From Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for module autoload
Date 2015-11-20 20:20 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:09:42PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The Atmel maxtouch DT binding documents that the compatible string for
> the device is "atmel,maxtouch" and the I2C core always reports a module
> alias of the form i2c:alias where alias is the compatible string model:
> 
> $ grep MODALIAS /sys/devices/platform/12e00000.i2c/i2c-8/8-004b/uevent
> MODALIAS=i2c:maxtouch

Do we know why we are not reporting modalias as "of:..." so that
autoloading using the of table works properly?

It sounds like the of matching and modalias is quite a mess at the
moment.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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[PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for module autoload Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-11-20 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for  module autoload Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 20:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for  module autoload Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-11-20 20:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Add maxtouch to I2C table for  module autoload Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2015-11-20 20:50 +0100

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