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Re: cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build

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On Friday 11 September 2015 13:55:36 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 11-09-15, 10:22, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > In my approach, I decided to allow the driver to be a module, as that
> > seems nicer for multi_v7_defconfig, but I now see that there are
> > several other drivers that can only be built-in, so if we decided to
> > make that the general strategy we should change them all.
> 
> And we need to do that with a proper module_exit() function, otherwise
> we are really adding a BUG. Which you just did with your patch 

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.

	Arnd
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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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