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/mfd/hi655x-pmic.ko | grep alias
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/mfd/hi655x-pmic.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hi655x-pmicC*
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hi655x-pmic
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
{ .compatible = "hisilicon,hi655x-pmic", },
{},
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, hi655x_pmic_match);
static struct platform_driver hi655x_pmic_driver = {
.driver = {