linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: dsa: mt7530: remove redundant MODULE

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Message-Id: <20180326.130956.19399658394636738.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:09:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sean.wang@...iatek.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: dsa: mt7530: remove redundant
 MODULE_ALIAS entries

From: <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:07:09 +0800

> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> 
> MODULE_ALIAS exports information to allow the module to be auto-loaded at
> boot for the drivers registered using legacy platform registration.
> 
> However, currently the driver is always used by DT-only platform,
> MODULE_ALIAS is redundant and should be removed properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>

Applied.