Commit 57d77c62 authored Oct 14, 2016 by Javier Martinez Canillas Committed by Guenter Roeck Dec 16, 2016

watchdog: bcm7038_wdt: fix module autoload



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/watchdog/bcm7038_wdt.ko | grep alias
$

After this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/watchdog/bcm7038_wdt.ko | grep alias
alias:          of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm7038-wdtC*
alias:          of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm7038-wdt

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

parent 69973b83

drivers/watchdog/bcm7038_wdt.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id bcm7038_wdt_match[] = {
		{ .compatible = "brcm,bcm7038-wdt" },
		{},
		};
		MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, bcm7038_wdt_match);

		static struct platform_driver bcm7038_wdt_driver = {
		.probe = bcm7038_wdt_probe,

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