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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2013-10-21 17:38:49 +0200
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2013-11-17 19:38:13 +0100
commit487722cf2d66126338217896642bd5eec832c34b (patch)
tree2f0d3b4293c3f4d1bba37889b7854f8e50ae45cb /drivers/watchdog/wdt.c
parent67b9fbdf3602dfd525371d7b1f49346f1d11d37d (diff)
downloadlinux-487722cf2d66126338217896642bd5eec832c34b.tar.bz2
watchdog: Get rid of MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV statements
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> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog/wdt.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/wdt.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/wdt.c
index ee4333c01109..e0206b5b7d89 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/wdt.c
@@ -664,6 +664,4 @@ module_exit(wdt_exit);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for ISA ICS watchdog cards (WDT500/501)");
-MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(WATCHDOG_MINOR);
-MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(TEMP_MINOR);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");