Re: [PATCH] gpio: kempld: Fix autoloading of module

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 04/11/2014 09:45 PM, Axel Lin wrote:
> Make the module alias match the platform device name, so gpio-kempld module
> should now autoload correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpio/gpio-kempld.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-kempld.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-kempld.c
> index c6d8817..ebe1023 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-kempld.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-kempld.c
> @@ -216,4 +216,4 @@ module_platform_driver(kempld_gpio_driver);
>   MODULE_DESCRIPTION("KEM PLD GPIO Driver");
>   MODULE_AUTHOR("Michael Brunner <michael.brunner@kontron.com>");
>   MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:gpio-kempld");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:kempld-gpio");
>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Wonder though if the module alias is necessary in the first place,
as the driver is instantiated from the mfd driver.

Guenter