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Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module autoload when PLATFORM devices are registered

From Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module autoload when PLATFORM devices are registered
Date 2017-05-02 04:20 +0200
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On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Eduardo Molinas <edu.molinas@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the driver is built as a module, it won't be autloaded if the devices
> are registered via PLATFORM code because the PLATFORM device table
> entries are not exported as aliases
>
> Before the patch:
> $ modinfo drivers/iio/adc/sun4i-gpadc-iio.ko | grep alias
> $
>
> After th patch:

        ^^ the

> $ modinfo drivers/iio/adc/sun4i-gpadc-iio.ko | grep alias
> alias:          platform:sun6i-a31-gpadc-iio
> alias:          platform:sun5i-a13-gpadc-iio
> alias:          platform:sun4i-a10-gpadc-iio
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Molinas <edu.molinas@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>

Can we merge this as a fix for 4.12?

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[PATCH 1/2] [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module autoload when PLATFORM devices are registered Eduardo Molinas <edu.molinas@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 00:50 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module autoload when OF devices are registered Eduardo Molinas <edu.molinas@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 00:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module  autoload when OF devices are registered Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2017-05-02 04:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module  autoload when OF devices are registered Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module  autoload when PLATFORM devices are registered Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2017-05-02 04:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc-iio: Fix module  autoload when PLATFORM devices are registered Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 00:10 +0200

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