From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mfd: max77686: Export OF module alias information Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:55:35 +0900 Message-ID: <56C17667.3010409@samsung.com> References: <1455251419-8919-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <1455251419-8919-5-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout4.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.14]:35986 "EHLO mailout4.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751868AbcBOGzl (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 01:55:41 -0500 In-reply-to: <1455251419-8919-5-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org To: Javier Martinez Canillas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andi Shyti , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones , Laxman Dewangan On 12.02.2016 13:30, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > When the device is registered via OF, the OF table is used to match the > driver instead of the I2C device ID table but the entries in the latter > are used as aliasses to load the module if the driver was not built-in. > > This is because the I2C core always reports an I2C module alias instead > of an OF one but that could change so it is better to always export it. > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas > > --- > > drivers/mfd/max77686.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > Makes sense, Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Best regards, Krzysztof