[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.17-6.1] hwmon: sy7636a: add alias

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

From: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>

[ Upstream commit 80038a758b7fc0cdb6987532cbbf3f75b13e0826 ]

Add module alias to have it autoloaded.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250909080249.30656-1-andreas@kemnade.info
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:

YES
**Rationale**
- Adding `MODULE_ALIAS("platform:sy7636a-temperature");` in
  `drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c:105` ensures udev can auto-load the
  module when the MFD core registers the `sy7636a-temperature` platform
  device. Today the driver lacks any `MODULE_ALIAS` or
  `MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE`, so built-as-module systems never bind
  automatically and the hwmon sensor stays unavailable unless manually
  `modprobe`d—an obvious functional bug.
- The platform child is created by `drivers/mfd/simple-mfd-i2c.c:66-73`,
  which exposes the `sy7636a-temperature` modalias; the regulator
  sibling already has a matching alias via its platform ID table
  (`drivers/regulator/sy7636a-regulator.c:122-134`), highlighting that
  the hwmon side simply missed the same piece.
- History (`git log -- drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c`) shows the driver
  has shipped without an alias since it was introduced in commit
  de34a40532507 (Jan 2022), so every stable kernel carrying this driver
  is affected.
- The fix is a one-line metadata change with no runtime impact beyond
  enabling the intended autoload path, so regression risk is negligible
  and it squarely fits stable rules.

**Next Steps**
1. Queue the patch for all supported stable trees that include
   `drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c`.

 drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c
index ed110884786b4..a12fc0ce70e76 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/sy7636a-hwmon.c
@@ -104,3 +104,4 @@ module_platform_driver(sy7636a_sensor_driver);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SY7636A sensor driver");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:sy7636a-temperature");
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