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Jean Delvare 487722cf2d watchdog: Get rid of MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV statements 
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>
2013-11-17 19:38:13 +01:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
amba DMA-API: amba: get rid of separate dma_mask 2013-10-31 14:48:38 +00:00
ata tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
atm
auxdisplay framebuffer: Use fb_<level> 2013-10-29 12:53:07 +02:00
base Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
bcma Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-11-13 17:40:34 +09:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-11-15 16:33:41 -08:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth 2013-11-05 15:58:21 -05:00
bus Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-11-14 08:51:29 +09:00
cdrom
char The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in 2013-11-16 10:19:15 -08:00
clk Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
clocksource
connector
cpufreq Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
cpuidle ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1 2013-11-14 13:41:48 +09:00
crypto tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
dca
devfreq Merge branch 'pm-devfreq' 2013-11-07 19:24:20 +01:00
dio
dma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
edac DeviceTree updates for 3.13. This is a bit larger pull request than 2013-11-12 16:52:17 +09:00
eisa
extcon
firewire tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
firmware Merge branch 'for-linus-dma-masks' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-11-14 07:55:21 +09:00
fmc
gpio Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-11-14 08:51:29 +09:00
gpu Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2013-11-15 16:48:22 -08:00
hsi
hv
hwmon Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2013-11-15 16:35:10 -08:00
hwspinlock
i2c tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
ide ide: pmac: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata() 2013-11-14 18:21:25 -05:00
idle ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1 2013-11-14 13:41:48 +09:00
iio kfifo API type safety 2013-11-15 09:32:23 +09:00
infiniband Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2013-11-15 16:48:22 -08:00
iommu Don't try to compile shmobile-iommu outside of ARM 2013-11-15 18:57:42 -08:00
ipack
irqchip Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-11-14 08:51:29 +09:00
isdn isdn: icn: NULL dereference printing error message 2013-11-07 19:11:13 -05:00
leds
lguest x86, asmlinkage, lguest: Pass in globals into assembler statement 2013-11-07 12:13:05 +10:30
macintosh DeviceTree updates for 3.13. This is a bit larger pull request than 2013-11-12 16:52:17 +09:00
mailbox
md Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
media Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
memory
memstick tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
message drivers/message/i2o/driver.c: add missing destroy_workqueue() on error in i2o_driver_register() 2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
mfd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
misc pwm: Changes for v3.13-rc1 2013-11-16 12:21:40 -08:00
mmc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-11-14 08:51:29 +09:00
mtd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
nfc
ntb
nubus
of Merge branch 'for-linus-dma-masks' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-11-14 07:55:21 +09:00
oprofile
parisc
parport Kconfig cleanups for v3.13 2013-11-15 14:05:15 -08:00
pci kfifo API type safety 2013-11-15 09:32:23 +09:00
pcmcia DeviceTree updates for 3.13. This is a bit larger pull request than 2013-11-12 16:52:17 +09:00
phy
pinctrl pinctrl: single: call pcs_soc->rearm() whenever IRQ mask is changed 2013-11-14 10:43:17 -08:00
platform tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
pnp ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1 2013-11-14 13:41:48 +09:00
power tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
powercap PowerCap: Fix build error with option -Werror=format-security 2013-11-05 02:36:57 +01:00
pps drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr 2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
ps3
ptp
pwm pwm: samsung: Fix kernel warning while unexporting a channel 2013-11-01 11:17:57 +01:00
rapidio
regulator Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
remoteproc virtio_ring: change host notification API 2013-10-29 11:28:11 +10:30
reset
rpmsg
rtc tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
sbus
scsi Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
sfi
sh
sn
spi tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
ssb
staging Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
target
tc
thermal Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2013-11-14 14:42:31 +09:00
tty Features: 2013-11-15 13:34:37 +09:00
uio drivers/uio/uio_pruss.c: use gen_pool_dma_alloc() to allocate sram memory 2013-11-13 12:09:23 +09:00
usb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-11-15 16:47:22 -08:00
uwb Driver Core / sysfs patches for 3.13-rc1 2013-11-07 11:42:15 +09:00
vfio
vhost
video ARM: SoC fixes for 3.13 merge window 2013-11-16 12:45:55 -08:00
virt
virtio Nothing really exciting: some groundwork for changing virtio endian, and 2013-11-15 13:28:47 +09:00
vlynq
vme
w1 drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: use dev_get_platdata() 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
watchdog watchdog: Get rid of MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV statements 2013-11-17 19:38:13 +01:00
xen Features: 2013-11-15 13:34:37 +09:00
zorro
Kconfig ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1 2013-11-14 13:41:48 +09:00
Makefile ACPI and power management updates for 3.13-rc1 2013-11-14 13:41:48 +09:00