Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1034119AbcJTQY0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:24:26 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:35043 "EHLO mail-pf0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1034103AbcJTQYY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:24:24 -0400 From: Kevin Hilman To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Armstrong , PrasannaKumar Muralidharan , Carlo Caione , linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, Herbert Xu , Matt Mackall , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS Organization: BayLibre References: <1476906618-14455-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:24:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1476906618-14455-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> (Javier Martinez Canillas's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:50:18 -0300") Message-ID: <7h4m477zux.fsf@baylibre.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 29 Javier Martinez Canillas writes: > The Amlogic Meson is a DT-only platform, which means the devices are > registered via OF and not using the legacy platform devices support. > > So there's no need to have a MODULE_ALIAS("platform:meson-rng") since > the reported uevent MODALIAS to user-space will always be the OF one. > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Acked-by: Kevin Hilman > --- > > drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c > index 51864a509be7..119d698439ae 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c > +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c > @@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ static struct platform_driver meson_rng_driver = { > > module_platform_driver(meson_rng_driver); > > -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:meson-rng"); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Meson H/W Random Number Generator driver"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Lawrence Mok "); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Neil Armstrong ");