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 current logging styles.
Make sure all output has a prefix.
Add missing newlines.
Remove now unnecessary PFX, NAME, and miscellaneous other #defines.
Coalesce formats.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Fix MODULE_PARM_DESC() strings in several watchdog drivers.
Some are simple as add a parenthesis.
Others are problems from __stringify() being used on a
variable name instead of a macro name, so the variable name
is produced in the string instead of its build-time value.
In these cases, create a macro for the value so that the
module param description string is useful.
Only pc87413_wdt has been built (due to toolchains).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Jean Delvare
Wim Van Sebroeck
Joe Perches
Randy Dunlap
Daniel Laird