If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module
alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered
device with the corresponding module.
Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro.
Before this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/power/reset/at91-poweroff.ko | grep alias
$
After this patch:
$ modinfo drivers/power/reset/at91-poweroff.ko | grep alias
alias:          of:N*T*Catmel,at91sam9x5-shdwcC*
alias:          of:N*T*Catmel,at91sam9x5-shdwc
alias:          of:N*T*Catmel,at91sam9rl-shdwcC*
alias:          of:N*T*Catmel,at91sam9rl-shdwc
alias:          of:N*T*Catmel,at91sam9260-shdwcC*
alias:          of:N*T*Catmel,at91sam9260-shdwc
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
        { .compatible = "atmel,at91sam9x5-shdwc", },
        { /*sentinel*/ }
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, at91_poweroff_of_match);
 
 static struct platform_driver at91_poweroff_driver = {
        .remove = __exit_p(at91_poweroff_remove),