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

[Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 04:05:02PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your answer. First of all I would like to apologize myself.
I just resent the patch because I was not aware the v2 patch was already
applied, I came across yesterday while updating my linux-next local copy.

For a reason I cannot understand, I didn't receive your previous answer.

My bad.

Regards,

Javier R.

> 
> > 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(-)
> >