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Message-ID: <20250712085940.GB9845@wp.pl>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:59:40 +0200
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@...pl>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 wireless-next 2/7] wifi: rt2x00: remove mod_name from
 platform_driver

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 01:08:15PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> mod_name is a legacy debugging feature with no real modern use. An
> analysis of the underlying MIPS setup code reveals it to also be unused.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@...pl>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800soc.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800soc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800soc.c
> index 701ba54bf3e5..e73394cf6ea6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800soc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800soc.c
> @@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ static int rt2800soc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  static struct platform_driver rt2800soc_driver = {
>  	.driver		= {
>  		.name		= "rt2800_wmac",
> -		.mod_name	= KBUILD_MODNAME,
>  	},
>  	.probe		= rt2800soc_probe,
>  	.remove		= rt2x00soc_remove,
> -- 
> 2.50.0
>