From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>,
a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:02:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708170902.01260.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708171736170.30502@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Friday 17 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Most busses don't have managed device IDs like PCI, USB, or PNP.
> >
> >The platform, spi, and i2c busses use the driver name, which is
> >obviously managed within the scope of all Linux drivers.
> >
> Yeah but that does not tell me why it needs the ds1742 alias
> if scripts (whatever they use to discover it) could modprobe rtc-ds1742
> instead.
Because for some reason the driver name isn't rtc-ds1742 ...
My preferred style for such patches puts the MODULE_ALIAS up
near the strange driver name, so it's more clear what's going
on. Putting all the MODULE_*() stuff at the end of the file
gets confusing in this case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-17 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 16:06 [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 10:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 15:23 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 15:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 16:02 ` David Brownell [this message]
2007-08-17 16:15 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 16:26 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 16:32 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-17 16:55 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 17:18 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-17 19:50 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 19:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 20:20 ` David Brownell
2007-08-18 2:40 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-18 4:06 ` David Brownell
2007-08-18 10:45 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-20 1:44 ` legacy platform drivers and hotplugging David Brownell
2007-08-20 2:02 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-20 9:51 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-19 12:57 ` [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-19 21:45 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-20 1:48 ` David Brownell
2007-08-20 2:02 ` David Brownell
2007-08-20 2:16 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 16:04 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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