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From: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
To: kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Cc: david-b@pacbell.net, jengelh@computergmbh.de,
	a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:57:51 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070819.215751.25908715.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ae72650708170932y5369213bq3479708216923edb@mail.gmail.com>

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.

---
Atsushi Nemoto

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-19 12:56 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
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             ` Atsushi Nemoto [this message]
2007-08-19 21:45               ` [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware 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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