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Brian Norris committed de57732da86
mtd: m25p80: fix module autoloading for "jedec, spi-nor" and "spi-nor" Commit 43163022927b ("mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for "jedec,spi-nor"") moved the "jedec,spi-nor" handling from the spi_device_id table to the of_match_table, to better handle matching complex device tree compatible strings. With that patch, device tree support works as expected when m25p80.c is built into the kernel. However, that commit ignored the fact that: (1) (non-DT) platform devices might want to use the "spi-nor" string for matching with this driver, rather than picking an arbitrary one like "m25p80" (2) the core SPI uevent/modalias code doesn't yet support kernel module autoloading via of_match_table strings; so for DT-based devices, it will only report (part of) the first compatible string used Problem (1) has been reported previously, and I forgot to patch it up afterward. Problem (2) was noticed recently here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-October/062369.html https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/12/574 Specifically, this patch fixes m25p80.ko module autoloading for cases like this: flash@xxx { compatible = "jedec,spi-nor"; ... }; because modalias of "spi:spi-nor" (the only module loading info provided by the SPI core for this device) will now be listed as an alias in m25p80.ko. Notably, it does *not* help cases like this: flash@xxx { compatible = "vendor,shiny-new-device", "jedec,spi-nor"; ... }; unless we also list "shiny-new-device" in m25p_ids[]. There has been discussion on future work for this issue here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/12/574 Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>