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/staging/media//st-cec/stih-cec.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/staging/media//st-cec/stih-cec.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih-cecC*
alias: of:N*T*Cst,stih-cec
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>