Re: [PATCH v12 6/6] staging: bcm2835-audio: Register bcm2835-audio with vchiq_bus_type

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-10-05T08:04:43Z

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 08:02:00PM +0530, Umang Jain wrote:
> Similar to how bcm2385-camera device is registered, register the
> bcm2835-audio with vchiq_bus_type as well.
>
> Since we moved away bcm2835-audio from platform driver/device,
> we have to set the DMA mask explicitly. Set the DMA mask at probe
> time.
>
> Meanwhile at it, change the name and module alias from "bcm2835_audio"
> to "bcm2835-audio" to be consistent with bcm2835-camera device. This
> does not brings any functional change as '-' and '_' are
> interchangeable as per modprobe man pages.

Again, why is the module alias still needed?

thanks,

greg k-h