| Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] staging: iio: hmc5843: Export missing SPI module alias information | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:09:01 +0200 |
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Hello Jonathan,
On 08/22/2015 07:59 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 20/08/15 08:07, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> The SPI core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "spi:<modalias>" >> regardless of the mechanism that was used to register the device >> (i.e: OF or board code) and the table that is used later to match >> the driver with the device (i.e: SPI id table or OF match table). >> >> So drivers needs to export the SPI id table and this be built into >> the module or udev won't have the necessary information to autoload >> the needed driver module when the device is added. >> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> > Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. > > This is too late for the upcoming merge window so it will be queued up for > the next one. >
IMHO this patch and "[PATCH 01/18] iio: Export SPI module alias information in missing drivers" [0] are fixing broken module autoloading which are bugs so are material for the 4.3 -rc cycle.
> Thanks, > > Jonathan
[0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/20/111
Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America
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