Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load

Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
load it.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
index bb53fd33cd1c..0d4266a533a5 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
@@ -811,6 +811,8 @@ static struct miscdevice uinput_misc = {
         .minor          = UINPUT_MINOR,
         .name           = UINPUT_NAME,
 };
+MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(UINPUT_MINOR);
+MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" UINPUT_NAME);
 
 static int __init uinput_init(void)
 {