On Friday 17 August 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Most busses don't have managed device IDs like PCI, USB, or PNP.
> >
> >The platform, spi, and i2c busses use the driver name, which is
> >obviously managed within the scope of all Linux drivers.
> >
> Yeah but that does not tell me why it needs the ds1742 alias
> if scripts (whatever they use to discover it) could modprobe rtc-ds1742
> instead.
Because for some reason the driver name isn't rtc-ds1742 ...
My preferred style for such patches puts the MODULE_ALIAS up
near the strange driver name, so it's more clear what's going
on. Putting all the MODULE_*() stuff at the end of the file
gets confusing in this case.
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