linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/9] dmaengine: dw: drop unused module alias

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Message-ID: <20251120114524.8431-3-johan@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:45:17 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Frank Li <Frank.Li@....com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/9] dmaengine: dw: drop unused module alias

The driver does not support anything but OF and ACPI probe since commit
b3757413b91e ("dmaengine: dw: platform: Use struct dw_dma_chip_pdata")
so drop the unused platform module alias along with the now unnecessary
driver name define.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/dma/dw/platform.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c b/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c
index cee56cd31a61..c63fa52036d7 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dw/platform.c
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
-#define DRV_NAME	"dw_dmac"
-
 static int dw_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	const struct dw_dma_chip_pdata *match;
@@ -190,7 +188,7 @@ static struct platform_driver dw_driver = {
 	.remove		= dw_remove,
 	.shutdown       = dw_shutdown,
 	.driver = {
-		.name	= DRV_NAME,
+		.name	= "dw_dmac",
 		.pm	= pm_sleep_ptr(&dw_dev_pm_ops),
 		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(dw_dma_of_id_table),
 		.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(dw_dma_acpi_id_table),
@@ -211,4 +209,3 @@ module_exit(dw_exit);
 
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Synopsys DesignWare DMA Controller platform driver");
-MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" DRV_NAME);
-- 
2.51.2