linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd/ofpart: add ofoldpart alias

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikmCY8UjJWRKTkM_QW2_Bxw4yqPfQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:51:24 +0400
From:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>
To:	dedekind1@...il.com
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd/ofpart: add ofoldpart alias

On 6/27/11, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 01:03 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> ofpart.ko also provides ofoldpart MTD parser. Add respective
>> MODULE_ALIAS("ofoldpart"); declaration.
>>
>
> Why we need the alias?

Please check the parse_mtd_partitions code. If requested parser
isn't registered, it tries to load corresponding module. So, this alias
is necessary in the semi-bogus case when one will have the list
of parsers containing ofoldpart, but not ofpart partition parser.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry
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