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From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     mark.rutland@arm.com, liliang6@email.cn,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 21cnbao@gmail.com,
        Yicong Yang <yangyicong@huawei.com>,
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        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, jonathan.cameron@huawei.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf/smmuv3: Add MODULE_ALIAS for module auto loading
Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:10:49 +0100
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:16:42 +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
> 
> On my ACPI based arm64 server, if the SMMUv3 PMU is configured as
> module it won't be loaded automatically after booting even if the
> device has already been scanned and added. It's because the module
> lacks a platform alias, the uevent mechanism and userspace tools
> like udevd make use of this to find the target driver module of the
> device. This patch adds the missing platform alias of the module,
> then module will be loaded automatically if device exists.
> 
> [...]

Applied to will (for-next/perf), thanks!

[1/1] perf/smmuv3: Add MODULE_ALIAS for module auto loading
      https://git.kernel.org/will/c/1b0e3ea9301a

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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