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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Linux I2C <i2c@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 20:04:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080503180420.GA17990@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502203721.70c5dc09@hyperion.delvare>

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:37:21PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> [Once more with Sam's address fixed, sorry for the noise.]
> 
> Not all device types need a wildcard at the end of their module
> aliases. In particular, for i2c module aliases, the trailing wildcard
> is not only unneeded, it could also cause the wrong driver to be
> loaded.
...
Hi Jean.

Do you expect me to take this via kbuild.git?

	Sam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-03 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 18:37 [PATCH] modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard Jean Delvare
2008-05-03 12:21 ` [i2c] " Jochen Friedrich
2008-05-03 12:50   ` Jean Delvare
2008-05-03 18:04 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-05-03 19:12   ` Jean Delvare
2008-05-05  0:09 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05  8:48   ` Jean Delvare
2008-05-05  9:09     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-05 10:30       ` Rusty Russell

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