[PATCH] watchdog: meson: Remove unneeded platform MODULE_ALIAS

Kevin Hilman khilman at baylibre.com
Thu Oct 20 09:23:03 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-gxbb-wdt")
> since the reported uevent MODALIAS to user-space will be the OF one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at osg.samsung.com>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>

> ---
>
>  drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> index 44d180a2c5e5..45d47664a00a 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/meson_gxbb_wdt.c
> @@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ static struct platform_driver meson_gxbb_wdt_driver = {
>  
>  module_platform_driver(meson_gxbb_wdt_driver);
>  
> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:meson-gxbb-wdt");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Amlogic Meson GXBB Watchdog timer driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");



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