linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: make efi/esrt.c driver explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:52:02 -0400
From:	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: make efi/esrt.c driver explicitly
 non-modular

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:11:28PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug, at 07:00:48PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > The Kconfig for this driver is currently hidden with:
> > 
> > config EFI_ESRT
> >         bool
> > 
> > ...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.
> > 
> > Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
> > case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit.
> > 
> > We leave some tags like MODULE_AUTHOR for documentation purposes.
> > 
> > We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that.
> > 
> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
> > Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
> > Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> 
> Looks good to me. I know Peter is on vacation right now, so I'm still
> expecting a response from him. In the meantime, I'll queue this up in
> the EFI 'next' branch. Thanks!

Looks fine to me as well.

-- 
        Peter
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