From: Andres Salomon Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:33:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3680^2~4158^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d5de1907d0af22e1a02de2b16a624148517a39c2;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name parse_mtd_partitions takes a list of partition types; if the driver isn't loaded, it attempts to load it, and then it grabs the partition parser. For redboot, the module name is "redboot.ko", while the parser name is "RedBoot". Since modprobe is case-sensitive, attempting to modprobe "RedBoot" will never work. I suspect the embedded systems that make use of redboot just always manually loaded redboot prior to loading their specific nand chip drivers (or statically compiled it in). Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: stable@kernel.org --- diff --git a/drivers/mtd/redboot.c b/drivers/mtd/redboot.c index 56e48ea7ff05..f40ba8610625 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/redboot.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/redboot.c @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ static struct mtd_part_parser redboot_parser = { .name = "RedBoot", }; +/* mtd parsers will request the module by parser name */ +MODULE_ALIAS("RedBoot"); + static int __init redboot_parser_init(void) { return register_mtd_parser(&redboot_parser);