patch "tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload" added to tty-next

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload

to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 11:57:20 -0300
Subject: tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload

If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered device with the corresponding module.

Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro.

Before this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.ko | grep alias
$

After this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.ko | grep alias
alias:          of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartdmC*
alias:          of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartdm
alias:          of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartC*
alias:          of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uart

---
 drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

index 7312e7e01b7e..6788e7532dff 100644
@@ -1809,6 +1809,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id msm_match_table[] = {
 	{ .compatible = "qcom,msm-uartdm" },
 	{}
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, msm_match_table);
 
 static struct platform_driver msm_platform_driver = {
 	.remove = msm_serial_remove,

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