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/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf.ko | grep alias
alias: acpi*:HISI00B2:*
alias: acpi*:HISI00B1:*
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf.ko | grep alias
alias: acpi*:HISI00B2:*
alias: acpi*:HISI00B1:*
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2C*
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1C*
alias: of:N*T*Chisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
{.compatible = "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2"},
{}
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, g_dsaf_match);
static struct platform_driver g_dsaf_driver = {
.probe = hns_dsaf_probe,