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/dsa/b53/b53_mmap.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_mmap.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm63xx-switchC*
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm63xx-switch
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm6368-switchC*
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm6368-switch
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm6328-switchC*
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm6328-switch
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm3384-switchC*
alias: of:N*T*Cbrcm,bcm3384-switch
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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