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    watchdog: Get rid of MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV statements · 487722cf
    Jean Delvare authored
    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: default avatarJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWim 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>
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