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/mailbox/mailbox-test.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cmailbox-testC*
alias: of:N*T*Cmailbox-test
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
{ .compatible = "mailbox-test" },
{},
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mbox_test_match);
static struct platform_driver mbox_test_driver = {
.driver = {