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/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:msic_thermal
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
{ DRIVER_NAME, 1 },
{ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, therm_id_table);
static struct platform_driver mid_thermal_driver = {
.driver = {