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/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,sead3-lcdC*
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,sead3-lcd
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,malta-lcdC*
alias: of:N*T*Cmti,malta-lcd
alias: of:N*T*Cimg,boston-lcdC*
alias: of:N*T*Cimg,boston-lcd
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
{ .compatible = "mti,sead3-lcd", .data = &sead3_config },
{ /* sentinel */ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, img_ascii_lcd_matches);
/**
* img_ascii_lcd_scroll() - scroll the display by a character