Re: [PATCH v2] input: touchscreen: edt-ft5x06: fix driver autoprobing

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 01:27:42PM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Because with OF we can pass more specific
> compatible flags (such as edt-ft5306) instead
> of generic edt-ft5x06, when i2c-core's
> of_i2c_register_devices() tries to request_module(),
> it'll request it with a non-existent specific module
> alias.
> 
> In order to have this driver autoprobing again, we
> just need to add missing MODULE_ALIAS() entries to
> edt-ft5x06 driver.
> 
> Thanks to Dmitry for noticing that it actually should
> autoprobe even with of_device_id.
> 
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Cc: <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.15+
> Fixes: dac90dc2 (Input: edt-ft5x06 - add DT support)
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
> ---
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.c b/drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.c
> index ee3434f..bcbf688 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.c
> @@ -1147,6 +1147,9 @@ static struct i2c_driver edt_ft5x06_ts_driver = {
>  
>  module_i2c_driver(edt_ft5x06_ts_driver);
>  
> +MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:edt-ft5206");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:edt-ft5306");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:edt-ft5406");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Simon Budig <simon.budig@kernelconcepts.de>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDT FT5x06 I2C Touchscreen Driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> -- 
> 2.1.0.GIT
> 

Here is what I see if I run modinfo on the module:

dtor@dtor-ws:~/kernel/work$ modinfo
drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.ko
filename:
/home/dtor/kernel/work/drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.ko
license:        GPL
description:    EDT FT5x06 I2C Touchscreen Driver
author:         Simon Budig <simon.budig@kernelconcepts.de>
alias:          i2c:edt-ft5x06
alias:          of:N*T*Cedt,edt-ft5406*
alias:          of:N*T*Cedt,edt-ft5306*
alias:          of:N*T*Cedt,edt-ft5206*
depends:        i2c-core
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.17.0+ SMP preempt mod_unload 

As you can see we already have what I consider proper modaliases for the
driver. Why don't they work? Is it because modprobe doe snot know how to
handle OF-style modaliases or device's uevents are missing OF data in
them?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry