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Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module
Date	2015-08-10 23:10 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:10:37PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:24:15AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> These patches enable building of timed_gpio, sync* and ashmem as a module
> >
> > Why do you want to do this?
> 
> Apparently I've misread "- make sure things build as modules properly"
> line in drivers/staging/android/TODO...
> My bad.

Nope, not your fault, I forgot about that.  We should remove that TODO
item, as it doesn't make sense for these "non-discoverable" modules to
be built as a module.

Care to make a patch for that?

thanks,

greg k-h
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[PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 2/6] staging: android: sync_debug.c: add include for linux/module.h Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: allow building timed_gpio as a module Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3/6] staging: android: combine sync.o and sync_debug.o into sync-core.o Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 5/6] mm: export shmem_zero_setup for modules Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm: export shmem_zero_setup for modules Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2015-08-10 09:50 +0200
  [PATCH 4/6] staging: android: allow building sync and sw_sync as a module Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a  module Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> - 2015-08-10 17:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a  module Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> - 2015-08-10 23:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 15:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a  module Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> - 2015-08-11 20:20 +0200
            [PATCH] staging: android: TODO: remove irrelevant parts Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 21:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] staging: android: TODO: remove irrelevant parts Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-08-12 01:40 +0200
                [PATCH v2] staging: android: update TODO Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 20:10 +0200

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