Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg | From | Alexander Sverdlin <> | Date | Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:40:33 +0200 |
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Hi!
On 17/06/15 18:03, ext Paul Bolle wrote: >> You do not see the platform_device, because there are no users yet, put >> > this MODULE_ALIAS() is perfectly fine, it will allow automatic module loading >> > in non-DT case. > Do you mean that it will allow automatic module loading once the patch > that adds a struct platform_device with a "i2c-mux-reg" name lands?
Any platform code which will register the platform_device will trigger uevent and udevd will be able to find the module with this macro. This is a legacy alternative to device-tree approach.
-- Best regards, Alexander Sverdlin.
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