Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933692AbcJQOGv (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:06:51 -0400 Received: from ec2-52-27-115-49.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com ([52.27.115.49]:35521 "EHLO s-opensource.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934495AbcJQOGK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:06:10 -0400 From: Javier Martinez Canillas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas , Arnd Bergmann , Lada Trimasova , Noam Camus , Elad Kanfi , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Gilad Ben-Yossef Subject: [PATCH 1/7] net: nps_enet: Fix module autoload Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:05:40 -0300 Message-Id: <1476713146-26632-2-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1476713146-26632-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> References: <1476713146-26632-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1171 Lines: 37 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 --- drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c index f928e6f79c89..223f35cc034c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c @@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id nps_enet_dt_ids[] = { { .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, -- 2.7.4