Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] mailbox: Add support for ST's Mailbox IP

From: Lee Jones
Date: Thu Jul 30 2015 - 07:45:56 EST


On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, Paul Bolle wrote:

> On ma, 2015-07-27 at 10:44 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c
>
> > +static int sti_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > +{
> > + [...]
> > +
> > + match = of_match_device(sti_mailbox_match, &pdev->dev);
> > + if (!match) {
> > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No configuration found\n");
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + }
> > + pdev->dev.platform_data = (struct sti_mbox_pdata *) match->data;
> > +
> > + [...]
> > +}
>
> > +static struct platform_driver sti_mbox_driver = {
> > + .probe = sti_mbox_probe,
> > + .remove = sti_mbox_remove,
> > + .driver = {
> > + .name = "sti-mailbox",
> > + .of_match_table = sti_mailbox_match,
> > + },
> > +};
> > +module_platform_driver(sti_mbox_driver);
>
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mailbox-sti");
>
> It seems this alias is only useful if there's a corresponding struct
> platform_device with a "mailbox-sti" .name. I couldn't spot that
> platform_device.
>
> Besides, if I read sti_max_probe() correctly, without OF support loading
> this module won't accomplish much. So what would another way of
> autoloading this module buy you?

I think this line can be safely removed.

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