From d5de1907d0af22e1a02de2b16a624148517a39c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:33:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name parse_mtd_partitions takes a list of partition types; if the driver isn't loaded, it attempts to load it, and then it grabs the partition parser. For redboot, the module name is "redboot.ko", while the parser name is "RedBoot". Since modprobe is case-sensitive, attempting to modprobe "RedBoot" will never work. I suspect the embedded systems that make use of redboot just always manually loaded redboot prior to loading their specific nand chip drivers (or statically compiled it in). Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: stable@kernel.org --- drivers/mtd/redboot.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/redboot.c b/drivers/mtd/redboot.c index 56e48ea..f40ba86 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/redboot.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/redboot.c @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ static struct mtd_part_parser redboot_parser = { .name = "RedBoot", }; +/* mtd parsers will request the module by parser name */ +MODULE_ALIAS("RedBoot"); + static int __init redboot_parser_init(void) { return register_mtd_parser(&redboot_parser); -- 2.7.4