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/thermal/max77620_thermal.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:max77620-thermal
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>