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Re: [PATCH 2/9] pinctrl: baytrail: make it explicitly non-modular

From Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/9] pinctrl: baytrail: make it explicitly non-modular
Date 2016-06-13 08:30 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> config PINCTRL_BAYTRAIL
>         bool "Intel Baytrail GPIO pin control"
>
> ...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.
>
> We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a
> sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove"
> code for non-modular drivers.
>
> Since module_init() was already not in use in this driver, we don't
> have any concerns with init ordering changes here.
>
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Patch applied with Mika's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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    Re: [PATCH 2/9] pinctrl: baytrail: make it explicitly non-modular Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2016-06-09 16:20 +0200
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