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

From Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS
Date 2016-10-20 18:30 +0200
Message-ID <suooa-1zb-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <su5bP-5KC-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization BayLibre

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Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> writes:

> 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>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>

> ---
>
>  drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> index 44d180a2c5e5..45d47664a00a 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> @@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ static struct platform_driver meson_gxbb_wdt_driver = {
>  
>  module_platform_driver(meson_gxbb_wdt_driver);
>  
> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:meson-gxbb-wdt");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Amlogic Meson GXBB Watchdog timer driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

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[PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-10-19 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> - 2016-10-20 18:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-10-21 00:30 +0200

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