Re: [PATCH 5/8] power: bq27x00_battery: Renaming for consistency

[Pali Rohár]

On Thursday 23 July 2015 22:56:26 Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 July 2015 19:03:08 Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> >> >> -#ifdef CONFIG_BATTERY_BQ27X00_I2C
> >> >> -MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:bq27000-battery");
> >> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_BATTERY_BQ27XXX_I2C
> >> >> +MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:bq27xxx-battery");
> >> >> 
> >> >>  #endif
> >> > 
> >> > Why is this MODULE_ALIAS needed? Some lines upper there is
> >> > 
> >> >  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, bq27xxx_id);
> >> > 
> >> > which add proper i2c: module alias...
> >> 
> >> Not sure, looks like it was added in commit
> >> 8ebb7e9c1a502cfc300618c19c3c6f06fc76d237 which claims that the
> >> "module won't get loaded automatically" without it, but I have not
> >> had this problem, so I'm not sure why it's there.
> > 
> > git grep bq27000-battery show me that only one driver uses that
> > name: drivers/w1/slaves/w1_bq27000.c
> > 
> > And more over, it is platform device, not i2c device. So that
> > commit 8ebb7e9c1a502cfc300618c19c3c6f06fc76d237 is wrong! CCing
> > Marek.
> 
> If you look to power/bq27x00 driver then there is I2C part and
> platform part only
> both selectable by config. In
> 8ebb7e9c1a502cfc300618c19c3c6f06fc76d237 was added MODULE_ALIAS to
> have this driver working as module for both buses. Even if I2C isn't
> used anywhere
> I add MODULE_ALIAS also for that.
> 
> > MODULE_ALIAS("platform:bq27000-battery") is really needed for
> > w1_bq27000.c but MODULE_ALIAS("i2c:bq27000-battery") should be
> > removed. It is not used by any board platform code or DT.
> 
> Not sure if it's good idea to remove it. Somebody outside can use it.
> 
> > Marek, correct me if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > --
> > Pali Rohár
> > pali.ro...@gmail.com
> 
> BR,
> 
> marek

Who, where any why is using alias i2c:bq27000-battery??

It is obviously wrong to add that alias. MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ... 
macro automatically adds all MODULE_ALIASes for all i2c devices.

If there is such device with needs i2c:bq27000-battery is should be 
fixed to use i2c:bq27??? identifier exported by MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.

git grep on kernel tree did not return anything, so there is no usage.

Of course alias for platform:bq27000-battery is needed.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.ro...@gmail.com

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