[PATCH v7 1/4] drm/layerscape: Add Freescale DCU DRM driver

Wang J.W. Jianwei.Wang at freescale.com
Sun Jul 12 20:58:15 PDT 2015


Hi Paul,

Thank you for your review.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bolle [mailto:pebolle at tiscali.nl]
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 9:16 PM
> To: Wang Jianwei-B52261
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] drm/layerscape: Add Freescale DCU DRM driver
> 
> A question and a nit follow.
> 
> On vr, 2015-07-10 at 19:17 +0800, Jianwei Wang wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/fsl-dcu/fsl_dcu_drm_drv.c
> 
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:fsl-dcu-drm");
> 
> Question: this appears to be only useful if there's a corresponding struct
> platform_device. That is, a platform_device with a "fsl-dcu-drm"
> .name. It will fire off a "MODALIAS=platform:fsl-dcu-drm" uevent when it's
> created.
> 
> I couldn't find this corresponding platform_device. Does it exist? Or is
> this alias needed for some other reason?
> 
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/fsl-dcu/fsl_dcu_drm_drv.h
> 
> > +#define DRIVER_NAME			"fsl-dcu-drm"
> 
> Nit: I don't think DRIVER_NAME is actually used anywhere.	
> 

Yes, you are right. Both are useless, I'll remove them.
I copied source code from other DRM driver at first, and forgot to remove them.
Thanks for your kindly remind.


BR.
Jianwei

> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Paul Bolle


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