linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/10] clk: samsung make clk-exynos-audss explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2016 09:32:16 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
	<linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] clk: samsung make clk-exynos-audss explicitly
 non-modular

[Re: [PATCH 06/10] clk: samsung make clk-exynos-audss explicitly non-modular] On 05/07/2016 (Tue 11:04) Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> On 07/04/2016 11:12 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> > 
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig:menuconfig ARCH_EXYNOS
> > arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig:   bool "Samsung EXYNOS" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
> > 
> > ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> > 
> > Lets remove the couple traces of modularity so that when reading the
> > driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> > 
> > Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> > when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> > 

[...]

> > -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Exynos Audio Subsystem Clock Controller");
> > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> > -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:exynos-audss-clk");
> 
> Why not removing .remove() callback as well?
> 
> I don't find sysfs unbind hook useful except testing the exit paths...
> which in that case do not exist anymore (there is no "modprobe -r" for
> it anyway).

Yes, I normally delete the .remove callbacks as indicated in the 0/10,
but somehow I overlooked this one.   Thanks for spotting it.  I'll
delete it and disable the sysfs bind in v2.

Paul.
--

> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>