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/supply/axp288_fuel_gauge.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/power/supply/axp288_fuel_gauge.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:axp288_fuel_gauge
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
{ .name = DEV_NAME },
{},
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, axp288_fg_id_table);
static int axp288_fuel_gauge_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{