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

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 21:57 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:32:19 +0200, "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Again, the only sane solution is to provide MODALIAS="platform:<name>"
> > from the platform bus, and adding the aliases to drivers who support
> > autoloading. Modalias strings are not free-text strings, they are
> > required to be prefixed by the subsystem.
> 
> I guess your objection is to my usage of MODULE_ALIAS, right?

No, I object to the concept of "platform" to disable all uevents by
default, just to work around its MODALIAS misuse. The rest of the kernel
works properly, and userspace has a unified way to handle events and
module loading.
There is absolutely no reason for "platform" to be different and break
all reasonable assumptions of module-init-tools, udev and HAL.

Thanks,
Kay

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