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/net/ethernet/hisilicon//hns_mdio.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:Hi-HNS_MDIO
alias: acpi*:HISI0141:*
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon//hns_mdio.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:Hi-HNS_MDIO
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-mdioC*
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-mdio
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,mdioC*
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,mdio
alias: acpi*:HISI0141:*
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
{.compatible = "hisilicon,hns-mdio"},
{}
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, hns_mdio_match);
static const struct acpi_device_id hns_mdio_acpi_match[] = {
{ "HISI0141", 0 },