[PATCH v2 3/6] mailbox: Add support for ST's Mailbox IP

On ma, 2015-07-27 at 10:44 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:

+static int sti_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	[...]
+
+	match = of_match_device(sti_mailbox_match, &pdev->dev);
+	if (!match) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No configuration found\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+	pdev->dev.platform_data = (struct sti_mbox_pdata *) match->data;
+
+	[...]
+}

+static struct platform_driver sti_mbox_driver = {
+	.probe = sti_mbox_probe,
+	.remove = sti_mbox_remove,
+	.driver = {
+		.name = "sti-mailbox",
+		.of_match_table = sti_mailbox_match,
+	},
+};
+module_platform_driver(sti_mbox_driver);

+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mailbox-sti");

It seems this alias is only useful if there's a corresponding struct
platform_device with a "mailbox-sti" .name. I couldn't spot that
platform_device.

Besides, if I read sti_max_probe() correctly, without OF support loading
this module won't accomplish much. So what would another way of
autoloading this module buy you?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle