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/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Csigma,smp8734-ethernetC*
alias: of:N*T*Csigma,smp8734-ethernet
alias: of:N*T*Csigma,smp8642-ethernetC*
alias: of:N*T*Csigma,smp8642-ethernet
alias: of:N*T*Caurora,nb8800C*
alias: of:N*T*Caurora,nb8800
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
},
{ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, nb8800_dt_ids);
static int nb8800_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{