linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 14/14] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Remove MODULE

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:11:11 +0000
From:   Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
CC:     <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 14/14] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Remove MODULE_ALIAS


On 12/01/2020 17:30, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> Tegra APB DMA driver is an Open Firmware driver and thus it uses OF alias
> naming scheme which overrides MODULE_ALIAS, meaning that MODULE_ALIAS does
> nothing and could be removed safely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> index fbbb6a60901e..0a45dd77618c 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
> @@ -1688,7 +1688,6 @@ static struct platform_driver tegra_dmac_driver = {
>  
>  module_platform_driver(tegra_dmac_driver);
>  
> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:tegra20-apbdma");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NVIDIA Tegra APB DMA Controller driver");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

Acked-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>

Cheers
Jon

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