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

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Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:32:57 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     sean.wang@...iatek.com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, 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
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 06:07:09PM +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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>

For this, and the second patch:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew