[v2] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

[RESEND PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

Posted by Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin 2 weeks ago

The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
on all mcb client drivers.

They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
single patch once the first patch was merged.

The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4

commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")

So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIAS on the mcb driver
in this subsystem as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent
to each affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
the handling for maintainers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/

changes in v2:
- Renane commit message

Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
  iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS

 drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

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2.52.0

Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

Posted by Jonathan Cameron 1 week, 1 day ago

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0100
Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:

Hi Jose,

When resending the first thing we should see is a clear statement here
at the top of the cover letter for why?  I applied the previous posted
version and not seeing any indication here on why I would consider this one.

Jonathan


> The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
> on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
> modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
> on all mcb client drivers.
> 
> They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
> in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
> single patch once the first patch was merged.
> 
> The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4
> 
> commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
> 
> So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIAS on the mcb driver
> in this subsystem as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent
> to each affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
> the handling for maintainers.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> 
> changes in v2:
> - Renane commit message
> 
> Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
>   iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
> 
>  drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>

Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

Posted by Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin 1 week, 1 day ago

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 04:05:02PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0100
> Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jose,
> 
> When resending the first thing we should see is a clear statement here
> at the top of the cover letter for why?  I applied the previous posted
> version and not seeing any indication here on why I would consider this one.
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your answer. First of all I would like to apologize myself.
I just resent the patch because I was not aware the v2 patch was already
applied, I came across yesterday while updating my linux-next local copy.

For a reason I cannot understand, I didn't receive your previous answer.

My bad.

Regards,

Javier R.

> 
> > The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
> > on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
> > modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
> > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
> > on all mcb client drivers.
> > 
> > They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
> > in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
> > single patch once the first patch was merged.
> > 
> > The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4
> > 
> > commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
> > 
> > So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIAS on the mcb driver
> > in this subsystem as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent
> > to each affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
> > the handling for maintainers.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> > 
> > changes in v2:
> > - Renane commit message
> > 
> > Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
> >   iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
> > 
> >  drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >

Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

Posted by Jonathan Cameron 1 week, 1 day ago

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:48:54 +0100
Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 04:05:02PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0100
> > Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Jose,
> > 
> > When resending the first thing we should see is a clear statement here
> > at the top of the cover letter for why?  I applied the previous posted
> > version and not seeing any indication here on why I would consider this one.
> > 
> > Jonathan
> >   
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Thanks for your answer. First of all I would like to apologize myself.
> I just resent the patch because I was not aware the v2 patch was already
> applied, I came across yesterday while updating my linux-next local copy.
> 
> For a reason I cannot understand, I didn't receive your previous answer.
No problem. But a resend is rarely the way to address that unless
a rebase is needed (in which case it's a new version anyway!)
If it's been quite a long time, just reply to the original thread
to ask if it got missed. 

Jonathan

> 
> My bad.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Javier R.
> 
> >   
> > > The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
> > > on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
> > > modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
> > > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
> > > on all mcb client drivers.
> > > 
> > > They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
> > > in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
> > > single patch once the first patch was merged.
> > > 
> > > The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4
> > > 
> > > commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
> > > 
> > > So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIAS on the mcb driver
> > > in this subsystem as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent
> > > to each affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
> > > the handling for maintainers.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> > > 
> > > changes in v2:
> > > - Renane commit message
> > > 
> > > Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
> > >   iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
> > > 
> > >  drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
> > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > >

Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/1] iio: Remove MODULE_ALIAS from men_z188_adc

Posted by Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin 1 week ago

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 06:26:44PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:48:54 +0100
> Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 04:05:02PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:48:04 +0100
> > > Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Jose,
> > > 
> > > When resending the first thing we should see is a clear statement here
> > > at the top of the cover letter for why?  I applied the previous posted
> > > version and not seeing any indication here on why I would consider this one.
> > > 
> > > Jonathan
> > >   
> > 
> > Hi Jonathan,
> > 
> > Thanks for your answer. First of all I would like to apologize myself.
> > I just resent the patch because I was not aware the v2 patch was already
> > applied, I came across yesterday while updating my linux-next local copy.
> > 
> > For a reason I cannot understand, I didn't receive your previous answer.
> No problem. But a resend is rarely the way to address that unless
> a rebase is needed (in which case it's a new version anyway!)
> If it's been quite a long time, just reply to the original thread
> to ask if it got missed. 
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Thanks for the info. It is good to know how to proceed in the future.

I've just followed the guideline for submitting patches.

Regards,

Javier R.

> > 
> > My bad.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Javier R.
> > 
> > >   
> > > > The first patches I sent for fixing the autoload problem encountered
> > > > on mcb device drivers were 2. The first [1] was focused on updating the
> > > > modpost process for letting kbuild to access to the data within
> > > > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE and the second one [2] for removing the MODULE_ALIAS
> > > > on all mcb client drivers.
> > > > 
> > > > They were rejected and Andy suggested me to split the second patch
> > > > in a per-driver basis instead of sending all drivers' changes in a
> > > > single patch once the first patch was merged.
> > > > 
> > > > The first patch is already merged on Linus's Git repository for 6.19-rc4
> > > > 
> > > > commit 1f4ea4838b13 ("mcb: Add missing modpost build support")
> > > > 
> > > > So now I am sending this patch for removing MODULE_ALIAS on the mcb driver
> > > > in this subsystem as it is no longer required. This cleanup is being sent
> > > > to each affected subsystem separately, as per the review suggestion to ease
> > > > the handling for maintainers.
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-2-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> > > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251127155452.42660-3-dev-josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com/
> > > > 
> > > > changes in v2:
> > > > - Renane commit message
> > > > 
> > > > Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin (1):
> > > >   iio: adc: men_z188_adc: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
> > > > 
> > > >  drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 1 -
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > > >   
>