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/staging/media//st-cec/stih-cec.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/staging/media//st-cec/stih-cec.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih-cecC*
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih-cec
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
},
{},
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, stih_cec_match);
static struct platform_driver stih_cec_pdrv = {
.probe = stih_cec_probe,