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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [media] et8ek8: Export OF device ID as module aliases
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 05:16:16PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The I2C core always reports a MODALIAS of the form i2c:<foo> even if the
> device was registered via OF, this means that exporting the OF device ID
> table device aliases in the module is not needed. But in order to change
> how the core reports modaliases to user-space, it's better to export it.
>
> Before this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/media/i2c/et8ek8/et8ek8.ko | grep alias
> alias: i2c:et8ek8
>
> After this patch:
>
> $ modinfo drivers/media/i2c/et8ek8/et8ek8.ko | grep alias
> alias: i2c:et8ek8
> alias: of:N*T*Ctoshiba,et8ek8C*
> alias: of:N*T*Ctoshiba,et8ek8
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>

Thanks!

Applied to my tree (for-v4.12 branch).

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Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ailus@iki.fi XMPP: sailus@retiisi.org.uk

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