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Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build

From Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build
Date 2015-09-11 10:40 +0200
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On 11-09-15, 10:36, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I don't consider that a bug: a module with just an init function and
> no exit function can be loaded once and never unloaded, which is not
> nice for debugging, but is otherwise fully functional.

For me, there are two essential things that a module has to support:
- hotplug, which is just fine.
- hot-unplug, which will pass as well, but without freeing resources..

:)

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viresh
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cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-11 10:20 +0200
  Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-11 10:20 +0200
    Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-11 10:30 +0200
      Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-11 10:40 +0200
        Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-11 10:40 +0200
          Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-09-11 11:40 +0200
            Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-11 11:50 +0200
              Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-09-11 12:00 +0200
                Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-11 12:10 +0200
                Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-09-11 12:20 +0200
                Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-09-11 12:20 +0200
    Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-11 10:30 +0200

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