From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754233AbXHSM4o (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:56:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752006AbXHSM4g (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:56:36 -0400 Received: from mba.ocn.ne.jp ([122.1.175.29]:51806 "EHLO smtp.mba.ocn.ne.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751465AbXHSM4f (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:56:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:57:51 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20070819.215751.25908715.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 From: Atsushi Nemoto In-Reply-To: <3ae72650708170932y5369213bq3479708216923edb@mail.gmail.com> References: <200708170902.01260.david-b@pacbell.net> <20070818.011501.41012303.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <3ae72650708170932y5369213bq3479708216923edb@mail.gmail.com> X-Fingerprint: 6ACA 1623 39BD 9A94 9B1A B746 CA77 FE94 2874 D52F X-Pgp-Public-Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2874D52F X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:32:19 +0200, "Kay Sievers" 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:" > 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