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Re: [PATCH 3/4] gpio: timberdale: make it explicitly non-modular

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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:config GPIO_TIMBERDALE
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:   bool "Support for timberdale GPIO IP"
>
> ...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.
>
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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[PATCH 0/4] gpio: batch #3: remove modular code from non-modular drivers Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-05-10 02:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/4] gpio: sodaville: make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-05-10 02:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3/4] gpio: timberdale: make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-05-10 02:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] gpio: timberdale: make it explicitly non-modular Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-05-11 13:50 +0200
  [PATCH 4/4] gpio: zevio: make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-05-10 02:10 +0200

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