From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: kr494167@gmail.com
Cc: nuno.sa@analog.com, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: ltc4283: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for OF match table
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:42:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e86e321-aab2-460c-a864-e6aa7c108bab@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260721055022.34629-1-kr494167@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 11:20:22AM +0530, kr494167@gmail.com wrote:
> From: surendra <kr494167@gmail.com>
>
> The driver registers ltc4283_of_match as the platform driver's
> .of_match_table so the kernel probes the device when a DT node with
> compatible "adi,ltc4283" is present, but the corresponding
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ...) call is absent.
>
> Without it the module alias table (modules.alias) does not contain an
> "of:N*T*Cadi,ltc4283" entry, so udev / kmod cannot auto-load the
> module when the DT node appears, breaking modules-based deployments
> while built-in configurations happen to work by accident.
>
> Add the missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() to fix module auto-loading.
>
> Fixes: dd63353a0b5e ("hwmon: ltc4283: Add support for the LTC4283 Swap Controller")
> Signed-off-by: surendra <kr494167@gmail.com>
Applied.
Thanks,
Guenter
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/ltc4283.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ltc4283.c b/drivers/hwmon/ltc4283.c
> index 9b85293ea664..9ec409bc2648 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/ltc4283.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ltc4283.c
> @@ -1772,6 +1772,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id ltc4283_of_match[] = {
> { .compatible = "adi,ltc4283" },
> { }
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ltc4283_of_match);
>
> static const struct i2c_device_id ltc4283_i2c_id[] = {
> { "ltc4283" },
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2026-07-21 5:50 [PATCH] hwmon: ltc4283: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for OF match table kr494167
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