* [PATCH] add modalias info to mv643xx_eth.ko
@ 2008-01-18 9:38 Olaf Hering
2008-01-18 16:31 ` Dale Farnsworth
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Hering @ 2008-01-18 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev, netdev
mv643xx_eth has an platform modalias file in sysfs.
But the module itself has no alias: line. Autoloading fails
without the alias info in the module.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
---
drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
@@ -2099,6 +2099,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR( "Rabeeh Khoury, Assaf Hoffman, Matthew Dharm, Manish Lachwani"
" and Dale Farnsworth");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Ethernet driver for Marvell MV643XX");
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv643xx_eth");
/*
* The second part is the low level driver of the gigE ethernet ports.
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* Re: [PATCH] add modalias info to mv643xx_eth.ko
2008-01-18 9:38 [PATCH] add modalias info to mv643xx_eth.ko Olaf Hering
@ 2008-01-18 16:31 ` Dale Farnsworth
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dale Farnsworth @ 2008-01-18 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Olaf Hering; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, netdev
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:38:05AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> mv643xx_eth has an platform modalias file in sysfs.
> But the module itself has no alias: line. Autoloading fails
> without the alias info in the module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
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