[PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS

From	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS
Date	2016-10-19 22:00 +0200
Message-ID	<su5bP-5KC-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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>
---

 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");
-- 
2.7.4

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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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