linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] clk: oxnas: make it explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:11:41 +0200
From:	Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] clk: oxnas: make it explicitly non-modular

2016-07-04 23:12 GMT+02:00 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/clk/Kconfig:config COMMON_CLK_OXNAS
> drivers/clk/Kconfig:    bool "Clock driver for the OXNAS SoC Family"
>
> ...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.
>
> Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
> Cc: linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/clk-oxnas.c | 15 +++------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>