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>
Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of
accessing dev->platform_data directly.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Replace the existing STMP3xxx driver because it has enough drawbacks
that a rewrite is apropriate. The new driver is designed to use the
watchdog framework which makes it a lot smaller and avoids open coding
the watchdog API again. It also uses now an explicitly exported function
from the RTC driver to set up its registers (the old driver silently
reused the hopefully(!) already remapped RTC registers). Also, this
driver is mach independent, while the old one depends on a mach replaced
by another one a year ago. Since the user interface is still the
standard watchdog API, users don't need to adapt.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Jean Delvare