On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 03:22:08AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote: > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Kuninori Morimoto "); > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ALSA SoC Simple Card Utils"); > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); This lot is what is needed (well, just the MODULE_LICENSE). > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:asoc-simple-card-utils"); This is wrong, this isn't a driver but rather a library that's used by other modules so it shouldn't have an alias. The aliases are there to let modutils know which module to load for a device that it sees.