From: Vincent <vincent.stehle@laposte.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] smsc911x: Add MODULE_ALIAS()
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:08:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9BCFC5.9090808@bergerie> (raw)
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Hi,
The smsc911x ethernet driver is lacking a module alias. This does
prevent auto-loading of the driver.
The attached patch fixes this. Please apply.
Best regards,
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Vincent Stehlé
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From: =?utf-8?q?Vincent=20Stehl=C3=A9?= <vincent.stehle@laposte.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:19:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] smsc911x: Add MODULE_ALIAS()
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This enables auto loading for the smsc911x ethernet driver.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@laposte.net>
---
drivers/net/smsc911x.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/smsc911x.c
index 7a7b01a..1cf5b8a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/smsc911x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/smsc911x.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_VERSION(SMSC_DRV_VERSION);
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:smsc911x");
#if USE_DEBUG > 0
static int debug = 16;
--
1.5.6.5
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2010-09-23 22:08 Vincent [this message]
2010-09-27 1:50 ` [PATCH] smsc911x: Add MODULE_ALIAS() David Miller
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