Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:54:42 +0100 | From | Wim Van Sebroeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Get rid of MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV statements |
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Hi Jean,
> I just can't find any value in MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(WATCHDOG_MINOR) > and MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(TEMP_MINOR) statements. > > Either the device is enumerated and the driver already has a module > alias (e.g. PCI, USB etc.) that will get the right driver loaded > automatically. > > Or the device is not enumerated and loading its driver will lead to > more or less intrusive hardware poking. Such hardware poking should be > limited to a bare minimum, so the user should really decide which > drivers should be tried and in what order. Trying them all in > arbitrary order can't do any good. > > On top of that, loading that many drivers at once bloats the kernel > log. Also many drivers will stay loaded afterward, bloating the output > of "lsmod" and wasting memory. Some modules (cs5535_mfgpt which gets > loaded as a dependency) can't even be unloaded! > > If defining char-major-10-130 is needed then it should happen in > user-space. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> > Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> > Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> > Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> > Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com> > Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> > Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> > Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> > Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
This patch has been added to linux-watchdog-next. I also added the removal part for the new rt2880_wdt.c driver to it.
Kind regards, Wim.
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