Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0100
Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jose,

When resending the first thing we should see is a clear statement here
at the top of the cover letter for why?  I applied the previous posted
version and not seeing any indication here on why I would consider this one.

Jonathan


> 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_ALIAS on the mcb driver
> in this subsystem 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):
>   iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
> 
>  drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>