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From: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
To: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND] drm: imx: imx-tve: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:56:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <565CC5F5.9070908@osg.samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448918893.3890.45.camel@pengutronix.de>

On 30/11/15 21:28, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> thanks for the reminder.
>

No problem. I was worried I was bothering.
 
> Am Montag, den 30.11.2015, 15:02 +0000 schrieb Luis de Bethencourt:
>> This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module
>> alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a resend of a patch from October 20th [0]
> 
> Sorry to have missed it, I was in the middle of a vacation then.
> I've applied it to my fixes branch now.
> 

I understand, we all have a few emails that fall between the cracks.

Thank you very much for reviewing and applying.
Luis

>> I am adding Andrew Morton to the CC list as was recommended at the Korea Linux
>> Forum.
>>
>> This patch adds the missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() for OF to export
>> that information so modules have the correct aliases built-in and
>> autoloading works correctly.
>>
>> A longer explanation by Javier Canillas can be found here:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/30/519
>> A multitude of similar patches have been merged for other drivers, search
>> the git log for "module autoload for OF platform driver".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luis
> 
> regards
> Philipp
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-30 15:02 [RESEND] drm: imx: imx-tve: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver Luis de Bethencourt
2015-11-30 21:28 ` Philipp Zabel
2015-11-30 21:56   ` Luis de Bethencourt [this message]

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