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/max8997_charger.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:max8997-battery
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
{ "max8997-battery", 0 },
{ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, max8997_battery_id);
static struct platform_driver max8997_battery_driver = {
.driver = {