From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:23:51 +0000 (-0300) Subject: watchdog: max77620_wdt: fix module autoload X-Git-Tag: v4.10-rc1~10^2~16 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f99524dced4c89af52a82a369cb61a111b9169b3;p=linux.git watchdog: max77620_wdt: fix module autoload 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/watchdog/max77620_wdt.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: modinfo drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.ko | grep alias alias: platform:max77620-watchdog Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck --- diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c index 48b84df2afda..68c41fa2be27 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/max77620_wdt.c @@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ static struct platform_device_id max77620_wdt_devtype[] = { { .name = "max77620-watchdog", }, { }, }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, max77620_wdt_devtype); static struct platform_driver max77620_wdt_driver = { .driver = {