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/ezchip/nps_enet.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cezchip,nps-mgt-enetC*
alias: of:N*T*Cezchip,nps-mgt-enet
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
{ .compatible = "ezchip,nps-mgt-enet" },
{ /* Sentinel */ }
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, nps_enet_dt_ids);
static struct platform_driver nps_enet_driver = {
.probe = nps_enet_probe,