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Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code
Date 2016-02-26 18:30 +0100
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From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:58:00 +0200

> While doing this, did you just go forward removing the module support,
> or did you check if it would be trivial to make the driver build as a
> module? I wouldn't be surprised if in some cases all that would need to
> be done is change the Kconfig's bool to tristate.

I think what he is doing is reasonable, and none of these sparc drivers
have any reason to be built modular.  You need them to have any bootup
console whatsoever, so they have to be built in statically to be
usable at all.

I plan to apply this patch series to my sparc tree as-is.

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Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc  code Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2016-02-26 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc  code Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-02-26 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc  code Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2016-02-29 09:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular  sparc  code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc  code David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-02-26 18:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc  code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc  code Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2016-02-29 10:00 +0100

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