Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:02:00 -0700 |
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On Friday 17 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Most busses don't have managed device IDs like PCI, USB, or PNP. > > > >The platform, spi, and i2c busses use the driver name, which is > >obviously managed within the scope of all Linux drivers. > > > Yeah but that does not tell me why it needs the ds1742 alias > if scripts (whatever they use to discover it) could modprobe rtc-ds1742 > instead.
Because for some reason the driver name isn't rtc-ds1742 ...
My preferred style for such patches puts the MODULE_ALIAS up near the strange driver name, so it's more clear what's going on. Putting all the MODULE_*() stuff at the end of the file gets confusing in this case.
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