[PATCH v7 1/4] drm/layerscape: Add Freescale DCU DRM driver
Wang J.W.
Jianwei.Wang at freescale.com
Sun Jul 12 20:58:15 PDT 2015
Hi Paul,
Thank you for your review.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bolle [mailto:pebolle at tiscali.nl]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] drm/layerscape: Add Freescale DCU DRM driver
>
> A question and a nit follow.
>
> On vr, 2015-07-10 at 19:17 +0800, Jianwei Wang wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/fsl-dcu/fsl_dcu_drm_drv.c
>
> > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:fsl-dcu-drm");
>
> Question: this appears to be only useful if there's a corresponding struct
> platform_device. That is, a platform_device with a "fsl-dcu-drm"
> .name. It will fire off a "MODALIAS=platform:fsl-dcu-drm" uevent when it's
> created.
>
> I couldn't find this corresponding platform_device. Does it exist? Or is
> this alias needed for some other reason?
>
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/fsl-dcu/fsl_dcu_drm_drv.h
>
> > +#define DRIVER_NAME "fsl-dcu-drm"
>
> Nit: I don't think DRIVER_NAME is actually used anywhere.
>
Yes, you are right. Both are useless, I'll remove them.
I copied source code from other DRM driver at first, and forgot to remove them.
Thanks for your kindly remind.
BR.
Jianwei
> Thanks,
>
>
> Paul Bolle
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