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

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:48:54 +0100
Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 04:05:02PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0100
> > Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Jose,
> > 
> > When resending the first thing we should see is a clear statement here
> > at the top of the cover letter for why?  I applied the previous posted
> > version and not seeing any indication here on why I would consider this one.
> > 
> > Jonathan
> >   
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Thanks for your answer. First of all I would like to apologize myself.
> I just resent the patch because I was not aware the v2 patch was already
> applied, I came across yesterday while updating my linux-next local copy.
> 
> For a reason I cannot understand, I didn't receive your previous answer.
No problem. But a resend is rarely the way to address that unless
a rebase is needed (in which case it's a new version anyway!)
If it's been quite a long time, just reply to the original thread
to ask if it got missed. 

Jonathan

> 
> My bad.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Javier R.
> 
> >   
> > > 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(-)
> > >