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/iio/adc/fsl-imx25-gcq.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/iio/adc/fsl-imx25-gcq.ko | grep alias
alias: of:N*T*Cfsl,imx25-gcqC*
alias: of:N*T*Cfsl,imx25-gcq
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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