linux-kernel - [PATCH 017/117] Staging: hv: mouse: Do not auto-load the mouse driver

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:46:05 -0700
From:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Cc:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 017/117] Staging: hv: mouse: Do not auto-load the mouse driver

The mouse driver is not functional and so, prevent auto-loading
of this driver. Earlier we added the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() line
to verify that the appropriate module alias was generated.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
index d6441d6..95986fb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
@@ -931,7 +931,10 @@ static const struct hv_vmbus_device_id id_table[] = {
 	},
 };
 
-MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(vmbus, id_table);
+/*
+ * The mouse driver is not functional; do not auto-load it.
+ */
+/* MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(vmbus, id_table); */
 
 static struct  hv_driver mousevsc_drv = {
 	.id_table = id_table,
-- 
1.7.4.1

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