Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:57:51 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware | From | Atsushi Nemoto <> |
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:32:19 +0200, "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote: > > I guess there are some out-of-tree users of this driver, but fixing > > them is really trivial, so I don't think this is a big compatibility > > problem. > > Again, the only sane solution is to provide MODALIAS="platform:<name>" > from the platform bus, and adding the aliases to drivers who support > autoloading. Modalias strings are not free-text strings, they are > required to be prefixed by the subsystem.
I guess your objection is to my usage of MODULE_ALIAS, right?
I will send a patch to change the driver name string, because I did not use the different name intentionally, I just had not thought about hotplugging at all. I think there is no serious reason to stick with current driver name anyway.
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