Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS

From	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS
Date	2016-11-29 16:00 +0100
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Hello Wim,

On 10/20/2016 07:28 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 04:49:42PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> The Amlogic Meson is a DT-only platform, which means the devices are
>> registered via OF and not using the legacy platform devices support.
>>
>> So there's no need to have a MODULE_ALIAS("platform:meson-gxbb-wdt")
>> since the reported uevent MODALIAS to user-space will be the OF one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> 

Any comments about this patch? There are other two similar fixes for
watchdog drivers that were also reviewed by Guenter but never picked:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/14/412
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/14/413

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America

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Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-11-29 16:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-11-30 12:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-11-30 13:50 +0100

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