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/thermal/max77620_thermal.ko | grep alias
$

After this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.ko | grep alias
alias:          platform:max77620-thermal

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com>
---

 drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c 
b/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c
index 83905ff46e40..e9a1fe342760 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ static struct platform_device_id max77620_thermal_devtype[] 
= {
        { .name = "max77620-thermal", },
        {},
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, max77620_thermal_devtype);
 
 static struct platform_driver max77620_thermal_driver = {
        .driver = {
-- 
2.7.4

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