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Re: [PATCH] drivers/dma: make mv_xor.c driver explicitly non-modular

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 04:27:49PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig for this driver is currently:
> 
> config MV_XOR
>         bool "Marvell XOR engine support"
> 
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> 
> Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
> case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit.
> 
> We leave some tags like MODULE_AUTHOR for documentation purposes.
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.

Applied, thanks

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[PATCH] drivers/dma: make mv_xor.c driver explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2015-08-21 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] drivers/dma: make mv_xor.c driver explicitly non-modular Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2015-08-23 15:50 +0200

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