The gpio-backlight driver seems to be missing the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE line which is preventing it from being modprobed during boot time even if the gpio-backlight device exists.
This seems to be a bug and this patch attempts to fix that. Signed-off-by: Arun Bharadwaj <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ash Charles <[email protected]> --- drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c index 439feb2..5fbbc2e 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c @@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ static struct of_device_id gpio_backlight_of_match[] = { { .compatible = "gpio-backlight" }, { /* sentinel */ } }; + +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, gpio_backlight_of_match); #endif static struct platform_driver gpio_backlight_driver = { -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
