Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware

[Atsushi Nemoto]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:02:00 -0700, David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Because for some reason the driver name isn't rtc-ds1742 ...
> 
> My preferred style for such patches puts the MODULE_ALIAS up
> near the strange driver name, so it's more clear what's going
> on.  Putting all the MODULE_*() stuff at the end of the file
> gets confusing in this case.

OK, then I should update my patches anyway ;)

Which do you prefer, MODULE_ALIAS or change some strings?

I guess there are some out-of-tree users of this driver, but fixing
them is really trivial, so I don't think this is a big compatibility
problem.

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Atsushi Nemoto
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