linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 6/8] pinctrl: cygnus: add gpio/pinconf driver

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Message-ID: <1425544581.24292.194.camel@x220>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:36:21 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Christian Daudt <bcm@...thebug.org>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@...aro.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>,
	Anatol Pomazau <anatol@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/8] pinctrl: cygnus: add gpio/pinconf driver

On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 09:11 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 16:35 -0800, Ray Jui wrote:
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>");
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom Cygnus GPIO Driver");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> 
> These three macros will be preprocessed away. (There's also
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. I don't yet know how that is handled in a
> non-modular build, sorry.)

It turns out MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is _really_ preprocessed away. See
include/linux/module.h:
    #ifdef MODULE
    /* Creates an alias so file2alias.c can find device table. */
    #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)                                 \
    extern const typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table         \
      __attribute__ ((unused, alias(__stringify(name))))
    #else  /* !MODULE */
    #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)
    #endif


Did I get that right?

(I knew the other three MODULE_* macros are handled in slightly more
complicated way, but the effect is basically that they are preprocessed
away.)


Paul Bolle

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