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/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Csyscon-reboot-modeC*
alias: of:N*T*Csyscon-reboot-mode
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
{ .compatible = "syscon-reboot-mode" },
{}
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, syscon_reboot_mode_of_match);
static struct platform_driver syscon_reboot_mode_driver = {
.probe = syscon_reboot_mode_probe,