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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH 2/7] backlight: tosa: Export I2C module alias information
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> The I2C core always reports the MODALIAS uevent as "i2c:<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: I2C id table or OF match table).
>
> So drivers needs to export the I2C 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>
>
> ---
>
> drivers/video/backlight/tosa_bl.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Applied, thanks.

> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/tosa_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/tosa_bl.c
> index 3ad676558c80..83742d806391 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/tosa_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/tosa_bl.c
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ static const struct i2c_device_id tosa_bl_id[] = {
> { "tosa-bl", 0 },
> { },
> };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, tosa_bl_id);
>
> static struct i2c_driver tosa_bl_driver = {
> .driver = {

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