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/spi/spi-xlp.ko | grep alias alias: acpi*:BRCM900D:* After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/spi/spi-xlp.ko | grep alias alias: acpi*:BRCM900D:* alias: of:N*T*Cnetlogic,xlp832-spiC* alias: of:N*T*Cnetlogic,xlp832-spi Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]> --- drivers/spi/spi-xlp.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-xlp.c b/drivers/spi/spi-xlp.c index 4071a729eb2f..bea7a93a6046 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-xlp.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-xlp.c @@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id xlp_spi_dt_id[] = { { .compatible = "netlogic,xlp832-spi" }, { }, }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, xlp_spi_dt_id); static struct platform_driver xlp_spi_driver = { .probe = xlp_spi_probe, -- 2.7.4
