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-sti.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:mailbox-sti
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:mailbox-sti
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih407-mailboxC*
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih407-mailbox
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>
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