From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81D6520E6 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2023 12:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A0EA3C433C8; Sun, 2 Jul 2023 12:02:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1688299356; bh=8bLEnUYc7wEzh+SSE9/0jlwi4h6W7dJNNRt3uf4BLDU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=mUrM5RxqjUF/JOgKqmDozbciP2lgT9QI5eOe32JYsSTsSUxEYuQ8wCsz6LtY+Ecmx D7LJO1zjDaIPNeAWHDJRoMog2JVK+kubREifRIvGskNmugyjp7R0rfnHaYJssVAo6N w1dV0S/TE13204CvGS/4f0qjlp73UxyvcXzzOaRA= Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 14:02:32 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Raphael Gallais-Pou Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: ili9341: use macro FBTFT_REGISTER_SPI_DRIVER Message-ID: <2023070254-embark-subplot-4dd4@gregkh> References: <20230702080324.120137-1-rgallaispou@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230702080324.120137-1-rgallaispou@gmail.com> On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 10:03:24AM +0200, Raphael Gallais-Pou wrote: > Using FBTFT_REGISTER_DRIVER resolves to a NULL struct spi_device_id. This > ultimately causes the module to an early exit at probe time. So this doesn't work at all today? Has it ever worked? What commit does thi fix? > In addition the MODULE_ALIASes can be dropped. Why? When you say "also" or "in addition", that's a huge hint it should be a separate patch. thanks, greg k-h