From: Jan Engelhardt Date: 2015-11-23 23:33:05.117741396 +0100 vhba: add devname alias depmod scans the devname aliases and populates /lib/modules/X/modules.devname, which udev uses to prepopulate /dev so that, in turn, a program can open a dev node and thereby cause autoloading. --- vhba.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: vhba-module-20140928/vhba.c =================================================================== --- vhba-module-20140928.orig/vhba.c +++ vhba-module-20140928/vhba.c @@ -1069,3 +1069,4 @@ static void __exit vhba_exit(void) module_init(vhba_init); module_exit(vhba_exit); +MODULE_ALIAS("devname:vhba");