Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module alias information

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sat Aug 22 2015 - 13:59:26 EST


On 20/08/15 08:07, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The SPI core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "spi:<modalias>"
> regardless of the mechanism that was used to register the device
> (i.e: OF or board code) and the table that is used later to match
> the driver with the device (i.e: SPI id table or OF match table).
>
> So drivers needs to export the SPI id table and this be built into
> the module or udev won't have the necessary information to autoload
> the needed driver module when the device is added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.

This is too late for the upcoming merge window so it will be queued up for
the next one.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> ---
>
> drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> index 8e658f736e1f..4dfb372d2fec 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_spi.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static const struct spi_device_id hmc5843_id[] = {
> { "hmc5983", HMC5983_ID },
> { }
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(spi, hmc5843_id);
>
> static struct spi_driver hmc5843_driver = {
> .driver = {
>

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