Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

18 Nov, 2013

1 commit

  • 487722cf2   watchdog: Get rid of MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV statements ... Browse Code »

    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
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck
    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck
    Cc: Stephen Warren
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Wan ZongShun
    Cc: Ben Dooks
    Cc: Kukjin Kim
    Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo
    Cc: Jim Cromie

    Jean Delvare
     

11 Nov, 2013

1 commit

  • c11eede69   powerpc: add missing explicit OF includes for ppc ... Browse Code »

    Commit b5b4bb3f6a11f9 (of: only include prom.h on sparc) removed implicit
    includes of of_*.h headers by powerpc's prom.h. Some components were
    missed in initial clean-up patch, so add the necessary includes to fix
    powerpc builds.

    Signed-off-by: Rob Herring
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Tejun Heo
    Cc: Matt Mackall
    Cc: Herbert Xu
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Vinod Koul
    Cc: Dan Williams
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org

    Rob Herring
     

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