From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mallaury.nerim.net (smtp-102-tuesday.noc.nerim.net [62.4.17.102]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EC2DDDF4 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:09:55 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:09:51 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] i2c: Convert all new-style drivers to use module aliasing Message-ID: <20080122110951.6d896b2b@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910801210850j39b9d51fy706b58ca15805f35@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080121112517.6fe35a89@hyperion.delvare> <20080121114139.3aaa111a@hyperion.delvare> <9e4733910801210850j39b9d51fy706b58ca15805f35@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Brownell , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux I2C List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Jon, On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:50:13 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > In my version of these patches new style drivers could be loaded with > both the driver_name/name scheme and the modalias. In these patches > new style drivers can only be loaded via modalias. Is that what you > intended? I'm all for making new style driver only use the modalias > scheme. Yes, this is what I intended. I see no point in having two ways to achieve the same result, it makes things more complex, more costly and possibly confusing. I would reconsider if someone points out a very good reason to keep both schemes in parallel. -- Jean Delvare