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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload

From Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload
Date 2016-10-21 15:00 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@osg.samsung.com> 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/gpio/gpio-ts4800.ko | grep alias
> $
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4800.ko | grep alias
> alias:          of:N*T*Ctechnologic,ts4800-gpioC*
> alias:          of:N*T*Ctechnologic,ts4800-gpio
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>

Patch applied for fixes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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[PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-10-18 22:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-10-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: ts4800: Fix module autoload Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-10-21 15:40 +0200

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