From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: remove redundant MODULE_ALIAS entries Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:14:16 +0800 Message-ID: <20180328021416.GK29239@sirena.org.uk> References: <58fc8553bdc3cbad8d107a905947b7e4d9c12b92.1522054975.git.sean.wang@mediatek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SdaPbLtAangIkrMZ" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <58fc8553bdc3cbad8d107a905947b7e4d9c12b92.1522054975.git.sean.wang@mediatek.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: sean.wang@mediatek.com Cc: matthias.bgg@gmail.com, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org --SdaPbLtAangIkrMZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:04:18PM +0800, sean.wang@mediatek.com wrote: > From: Sean Wang >=20 > MODULE_ALIAS exports information to allow the module to be auto-loaded at > boot for the drivers registered using legacy platform registration. >=20 > However, currently the driver is always used by DT-only platform, > MODULE_ALIAS is redundant and should be removed properly. There is no meaningful cost to having the alias there, why remove it? --SdaPbLtAangIkrMZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAlq6+ngACgkQJNaLcl1U h9DH+Qf9EtxwWsTohTFZLq84M56CM8LV9zkR8RXwk1z1y8iuiUjwqlLSfeAltGNU XHcFWDc3Q9+hsx/nhq3YsVGJ8b7ligzUs+jfsZ4a9G+/KG+89ojAMzn24zTZoQWy 0FjMU6KfdlhcM07f3g7GH/Rj/OiriBGOs1hfYtHZA0fOshGgT5yLPMSwb5GTbjgD flCk4qclIug/P8+WDGYMABV0+zypuZK1xtK+fmoFZwTLKg8BnQU7pyZIsainqjIj MjhGdolULgvMBtVbqwS84epAWq88wxTd9FZGyeEgCbc8L4hrrXuuMH3Xj/lqHBEf mQQkcN8gROFJYdGdIakuHP69k7Il9g== =HD40 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SdaPbLtAangIkrMZ--