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Message-ID: <11391915.IGaQsBJu0i@ax5200p>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:21:03 +0200
From: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@....de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/21] staging: nvec: allow modular build
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 22:14:18 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2013, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > It builds, but I haven't tried out it yet. At least the mfd children need
> > to unregister the event notifier I guess. Anyway, I have no time to test
> > this now, so I prefer to force =y for the dependencies for now.
>
> Ah, so you can load it fine, but not safely unload it? In that case I think
> it's better to leave it as tristate but remove the module_exit() function to
> prevent unloading.
>
> You'll have to change the module_platform_driver() back into a manual
> module_init() function to register the driver, but that sounds like
> the cleanest solution aside from fixing the notifier calls.
ok, I'll look into it - maybe I can also fix unloading.
Thanks!
Marc
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