Re: [PATCH] power: Remove unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS() for I2C drivers

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Mon Aug 31 2015 - 04:40:40 EST


Hello Pali,

On 08/31/2015 10:35 AM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> On Monday 31 August 2015 10:17:11 Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> [adding cc list again]
>>
>> Hello Pali,
>>
>> On 08/31/2015 09:17 AM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
>>> On Monday 31 August 2015 01:18:35 Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>>> These drivers already have an I2C device id table that is used to create
>>>> module aliases and the used MODULE_ALIAS() was either already in the I2C
>>>> table so it was redundant or wasn't a valid I2C id so it was never used.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c b/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c
>>>> index 8287261fd978..d0b2f3b47b8f 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c
>>>> @@ -1120,10 +1120,6 @@ module_exit(bq27x00_battery_exit);
>>>> MODULE_ALIAS("platform:bq27000-battery");
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_BATTERY_BQ27X00_I2C
>>>> -MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:bq27000-battery");
>>>> -#endif
>>>> -
>>>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx>");
>>>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("BQ27x00 battery monitor driver");
>>>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>>
>>> Hi! This part of patch is already in queue list. So then your patch will
>>> conflict with other pending patches...
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, with which patch it will conflict? It applies cleanly on top of
>> the power supply git tree next branch:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git/log/?h=next
>>
>> Best regards,
>
> There are bq27x00 patches waiting on mailing list...
>
> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/22/705
> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/28/929
> v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/5/597
>

Thanks for the pointer, I didn't see those patches before.

> Your patch will conflict with this (v2) patch:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/28/923
>

Great, in fact that's exactly the same patch.
So this one patch can be discarded indeed.

> Some of v1 patches are already merged into tree, some v2 are Acked by
> me, but not merged yet... Probably Sebastian (maintainer) did not have
> time to review all patches yet.
>

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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