mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Fix broken module aliases in ieee1394
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:51:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050929195121.GA8095@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050929121038.54d4cef0.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:10:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> hm.  There are a bunch of 1394 patches in -mm which appear to remove
> most/all of this stuff.

Stefan's patch (attached) just removes those aliases, but that's fine
since they've never worked.

> So what-the-heck I think I'll send those patches on to Linus today.  Please
> review the result and send any remaining fixups on to Linus for 2.6.14. 
> (I'm offline for ~10 days, starting tomorrow).

You could just push that patch.  It applies fine on its own.  It would
be really nice to see the rest of them in 2.6.14 though since they
contain some much-needed sbp2 fixes, among other things.

Jody


Subject: ieee1394: delete legacy module aliases

amdtp, dv1394, raw1394, video1394:
Delete legacy module aliases. The macros did not work and the aliases are not
needed nowadays.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com>

Index: linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/amdtp.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/drivers/ieee1394/amdtp.c
+++ linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/amdtp.c
@@ -1297,4 +1297,3 @@ static void __exit amdtp_exit_module (vo
 
 module_init(amdtp_init_module);
 module_exit(amdtp_exit_module);
-MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(IEEE1394_MAJOR, IEEE1394_MINOR_BLOCK_AMDTP * 16);
Index: linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c
+++ linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c
@@ -2660,4 +2660,3 @@ static int __init dv1394_init_module(voi
 
 module_init(dv1394_init_module);
 module_exit(dv1394_exit_module);
-MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(IEEE1394_MAJOR, IEEE1394_MINOR_BLOCK_DV1394 * 16);
Index: linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
+++ linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c
@@ -2958,4 +2958,3 @@ static void __exit cleanup_raw1394(void)
 module_init(init_raw1394);
 module_exit(cleanup_raw1394);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(IEEE1394_MAJOR, IEEE1394_MINOR_BLOCK_RAW1394 * 16);
Index: linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c
+++ linux-2.6.13/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c
@@ -1571,4 +1571,3 @@ static int __init video1394_init_module 
 
 module_init(video1394_init_module);
 module_exit(video1394_exit_module);
-MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(IEEE1394_MAJOR, IEEE1394_MINOR_BLOCK_VIDEO1394 * 16);

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-29 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-29 18:57 Dave Jones
2005-09-29 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-29 19:51   ` Jody McIntyre [this message]
2005-09-29 20:36   ` Stefan Richter

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20050929195121.GA8095@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca \
    --to=scjody@modernduck.com \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=davej@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®