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/mailbox/mailbox-sti.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:mailbox-sti
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:mailbox-sti
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih407-mailboxC*
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih407-mailbox
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <[email protected]>
},
{ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sti_mailbox_match);
static int sti_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{