linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: remove redundant MODULE

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:14:16 +0800
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     sean.wang@...iatek.com
Cc:     matthias.bgg@...il.com, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: remove redundant MODULE_ALIAS entries

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:04:18PM +0800, sean.wang@...iatek.com wrote:
> 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.

There is no meaningful cost to having the alias there, why remove it?

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