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/watchdog/max77620_wdt.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
modinfo drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.ko | grep alias
alias: platform:max77620-watchdog
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
{ .name = "max77620-watchdog", },
{ },
};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, max77620_wdt_devtype);
static struct platform_driver max77620_wdt_driver = {
.driver = {