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/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cadi,axi-spi-engine-1.00.aC*
alias: of:N*T*Cadi,axi-spi-engine-1.00.a
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
{ .compatible = "adi,axi-spi-engine-1.00.a" },
{ },
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, spi_engine_match_table);
static struct platform_driver spi_engine_driver = {
.probe = spi_engine_probe,