diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
index 55c1530..4e491c1 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/tca8418_keypad.c
@@ -392,6 +392,13 @@
 	{ }
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, tca8418_dt_ids);
+
+/*
+ * The device tree based i2c loader looks for
+ * "i2c:" + second_component_of(property("compatible"))
+ * and therefore we need an alias to be found.
+ */
+MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:tca8418");
 #endif
 
 static struct i2c_driver tca8418_keypad_driver = {