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/spi/spi-ath79.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:ath79-spi
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/spi/spi-ath79.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:ath79-spi
alias: of:N*T*Cqca,ar7100-spiC*
alias: of:N*T*Cqca,ar7100-spi
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
{ .compatible = "qca,ar7100-spi", },
{ },
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ath79_spi_of_match);
static struct platform_driver ath79_spi_driver = {
.probe = ath79_spi_probe,