Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] watchdog: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from menz69_wdt
From: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin
Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 07:30:51 EST
On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 02:33:31PM +0100, Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin wrote:
> The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
> on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
> modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
> on all mcb client drivers.
>
> They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
> in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
> single patch once the first patch was merged.
>
> The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4
>
> commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
>
> So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIASon all mcb client
> drivers as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent to each
> affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
> the handling for maintainers.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> changes in v2:
> - Renane commit message
>
> Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
> watchdog: menz069_wdt: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
>
> drivers/watchdog/menz69_wdt.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> 2.52.0
Dear all,
I sent this patch series a few months ago. I thought It was already applied
but after synchronizing my local I came across that this patch is missing.
Could you give me some feedback?
Thank you so much.
Javier R.