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Re: [PATCH 5/6] memory: samsung/exynos-srom: make it explicitly non-modular

From Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 5/6] memory: samsung/exynos-srom: make it explicitly non-modular
Date 2016-06-20 10:00 +0200
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On 06/17/2016 02:37 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> memory/samsung/Kconfig:config EXYNOS_SROM
> memory/samsung/Kconfig: bool "Exynos SROM controller driver" if COMPILE_TEST
> 
> ...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_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
> 
> 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: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>
> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
> Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---
>  drivers/memory/samsung/exynos-srom.c | 21 +++------------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied for v4.8.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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[PATCH 5/6] memory: samsung/exynos-srom: make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-06-17 02:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 5/6] memory: samsung/exynos-srom: make it explicitly  non-modular Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> - 2016-06-20 10:00 +0200

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