linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide: make ide-scan-pci.c driver explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:13:05 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide: make ide-scan-pci.c driver explicitly
 non-modular

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:45:51 -0500

> The Kconfig for this support is currently:
> 
> config IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER
>         bool "Probe IDE PCI devices in the PCI bus order (DEPRECATED)"
> 
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> Lets change the initcall to be the equivalent device_initcall, so that
> when reading the driver code, there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> 
> Unlike other similar changes, we leave the module.h header to be
> included since this code interacts with other drivers and needs to
> know what a struct module is.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied.