[PATCH] hwrng: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS
Kevin Hilman
khilman at baylibre.com
Thu Oct 20 09:24:22 PDT 2016
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at osg.samsung.com> 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 <javier at osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>
> ---
>
> 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 <lawrence.mok at amlogic.com>");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>");
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