From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756110AbdABPVM (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2017 10:21:12 -0500 Received: from ec2-52-27-115-49.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com ([52.27.115.49]:56943 "EHLO osg.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755969AbdABPVK (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2017 10:21:10 -0500 From: Javier Martinez Canillas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mika Westerberg , Javier Martinez Canillas , Darren Hart , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix module autoload Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:20:56 -0300 Message-Id: <1483370456-30786-2-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1483370456-30786-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> References: <1483370456-30786-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias alias: platform:msic_thermal Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas --- drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c index 05ac7203806d..008a76903cbf 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c @@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ static const struct platform_device_id therm_id_table[] = { { DRIVER_NAME, 1 }, { } }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, therm_id_table); static struct platform_driver mid_thermal_driver = { .driver = { -- 2.7.4