On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:37:01 +0200 (CEST), Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> 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.
Well, the rtc-ds1742 platform driver uses a string "ds1742" for its
platform_driver definition.
static struct platform_driver ds1742_rtc_driver = {
.probe = ds1742_rtc_probe,
.remove = __devexit_p(ds1742_rtc_remove),
.driver = {
.name = "ds1742",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
};
We can change the name string and all definitions of "ds1742" platform
device instead of adding MODULE_ALIAS. It is easy since there are
only a few users in kernel. If that was preferred, I can rewrite this
patch.
---
Atsushi Nemoto
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