[PATCH v4] MMC: meson: initial support for GX platforms
Kevin Hilman
khilman at baylibre.com
Wed Oct 19 11:01:53 PDT 2016
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at dowhile0.org> writes:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
>> Initial support for the SD/eMMC controller in the Amlogic S905/GX*
>> family of SoCs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>
>
> [snip]
>
>> +
>> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" DRIVER_NAME);
>
> Why is this module alias needed? I thought that the Amlogic was a
> DT-only platform and so devices will always be registered from OF (and
> the OF modalias used).
You're right, I probably copy/pasted it from another driver.
Testing without it also made me realize that the module filename (meson_gx)
isn't really useful when listed in lsmod, so I 'll respin to have mmc in
the filename so the module name also shows mmc.
Kevin
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