i2c: fix module autoloading

[PATCH] i2c: fix module autoloading

Posted by Yuntao Liu 1 year, 5 months ago

Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(), so modules could be properly autoloaded
based on the alias from i2c_device_id table.

Fixes: e9f1373b64388 ("i2c: Add i2c_new_dummy() utility")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index b63f75e44296..82622ef71b41 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1070,6 +1070,7 @@ static const struct i2c_device_id dummy_id[] = {
 	{ "smbus_host_notify", },
 	{ },
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, dummy_id);
 
 static int dummy_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
 {
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] i2c: fix module autoloading

Posted by Wolfram Sang 8 months, 3 weeks ago

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 09:02:25AM +0000, Yuntao Liu wrote:
> Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(), so modules could be properly autoloaded
> based on the alias from i2c_device_id table.
> 
> Fixes: e9f1373b64388 ("i2c: Add i2c_new_dummy() utility")
> Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>

Autoloading the dummy driver? What is the use case?