Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] mailbox: Add support for ST's Mailbox IP

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Tue Jul 28 2015 - 18:07:13 EST


On ma, 2015-07-27 at 10:44 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c

> +static int sti_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> + [...]
> +
> + match = of_match_device(sti_mailbox_match, &pdev->dev);
> + if (!match) {
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No configuration found\n");
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> + pdev->dev.platform_data = (struct sti_mbox_pdata *) match->data;
> +
> + [...]
> +}

> +static struct platform_driver sti_mbox_driver = {
> + .probe = sti_mbox_probe,
> + .remove = sti_mbox_remove,
> + .driver = {
> + .name = "sti-mailbox",
> + .of_match_table = sti_mailbox_match,
> + },
> +};
> +module_platform_driver(sti_mbox_driver);

> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mailbox-sti");

It seems this alias is only useful if there's a corresponding struct
platform_device with a "mailbox-sti" .name. I couldn't spot that
platform_device.

Besides, if I read sti_max_probe() correctly, without OF support loading
this module won't accomplish much. So what would another way of
autoloading this module buy you?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle
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