[PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

[PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

[Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin]

The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
on all mcb client drivers.

They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
single patch once the first patch was merged.

The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4

commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")

So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIAS on the mcb driver
in this subsystem as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent
to each affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
the handling for maintainers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/

changes in v2:
- Renane commit message

Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
  iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS

 drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

-- 
2.52.0

[PATCH v2 1/1] iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS

[Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin]

Since commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
the MODULE_ALIAS() is redundant as the module alias is now
automatically generated from the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE().

Remove the explicit alias.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Jorge Sanjuan Garcia <dev-jorge.sanjuangarcia@duagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com>
---
 drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c
index cf8a8c0412ec..90919d282e7b 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c
@@ -171,5 +171,4 @@ module_mcb_driver(men_z188_driver);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@men.de>");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IIO ADC driver for MEN 16z188 ADC Core");
-MODULE_ALIAS("mcb:16z188");
 MODULE_IMPORT_NS("MCB");
-- 
2.52.0

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:53:01 +0100
Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:

> Since commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
> the MODULE_ALIAS() is redundant as the module alias is now
> automatically generated from the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE().
> 
> Remove the explicit alias.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jorge Sanjuan Garcia <dev-jorge.sanjuangarcia@duagon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com>
Applied. Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c
> index cf8a8c0412ec..90919d282e7b 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c
> @@ -171,5 +171,4 @@ module_mcb_driver(men_z188_driver);
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@men.de>");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IIO ADC driver for MEN 16z188 ADC Core");
> -MODULE_ALIAS("mcb:16z188");
>  MODULE_IMPORT_NS("MCB");