linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] drivers/tty: make more bool drivers explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:10:52 +0200
From:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-soc@...r.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, Andy Gross <agross@...eaurora.org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] drivers/tty: make more bool drivers explicitly
 non-modular

On 18/10/2015 at 18:21:13 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote :
> The one common thread here for all the patches is that we also
> scrap the .remove functions which would only be used for module
> unload (impossible) and driver unbind.  For the drivers here, there
> doesn't seem to be a sensible unbind use case (vs. e.g. a multiport
> PCI ethernet driver where one port is unbound and passed through to
> a kvm guest or similar).  Hence we just explicitly disallow any
> driver unbind operations to help prevent root from doing something
> illogical to the machine that they could have done previously.
> 
> We've already done this for drivers/tty/serial/mpsc.c previously.
> 
> Build tested for allmodconfig on ARM64 and powerpc for tty/tty-testing.
> 

So, how does this actually build test atmel_serial?

A proper solution would be to actually make it a tristate and allow
building as a module. I think it currently fails because of
console_initcall() but that is certainly fixable.


-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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