From: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
To: david-b@pacbell.net
Cc: jengelh@computergmbh.de, a.zummo@towertech.it,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:15:01 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070818.011501.41012303.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708170902.01260.david-b@pacbell.net>
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:02:00 -0700, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 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.
OK, then I should update my patches anyway ;)
Which do you prefer, MODULE_ALIAS or change some strings?
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.
---
Atsushi Nemoto
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-17 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 16:06 Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 10:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 15:23 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 15:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 16:02 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 16:15 ` Atsushi Nemoto [this message]
2007-08-17 16:26 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 16:32 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-17 16:55 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 17:18 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-17 19:50 ` David Brownell
2007-08-17 19:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 20:20 ` David Brownell
2007-08-18 2:40 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-18 4:06 ` David Brownell
2007-08-18 10:45 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-20 1:44 ` legacy platform drivers and hotplugging David Brownell
2007-08-20 2:02 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-20 9:51 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-19 12:57 ` [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-19 21:45 ` Kay Sievers
2007-08-20 1:48 ` David Brownell
2007-08-20 2:02 ` David Brownell
2007-08-20 2:16 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-08-17 16:04 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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