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User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --SdaPbLtAangIkrMZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:04:18PM +0800, sean.wang@mediatek.com wrote: > From: Sean Wang >=20 > MODULE_ALIAS exports information to allow the module to be auto-loaded at > boot for the drivers registered using legacy platform registration. >=20 > However, currently the driver is always used by DT-only platform, > MODULE_ALIAS is redundant and should be removed properly. 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