linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] drivers/pci: make host/pci-mvebu.c explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:33:29 +0100
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	<linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] drivers/pci: make host/pci-mvebu.c explicitly
 non-modular

Paul,

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:41:50 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> drivers/pci/host/Kconfig:config PCI_MVEBU
> drivers/pci/host/Kconfig:       bool "Marvell EBU PCIe controller"
> 
> ...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_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
> 
> We don't have to disallow a driver unbind, since that is already
> done for us in this driver.
> 
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> was (or is now ) contained at the top of the file in the comments.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

I think the general direction should rather be to change the PCI
subsystem to make it possible for those drivers to be built as modules.
However, since this is quite certainly a much larger effort, there is
no reason to not clean things up as they are today, so:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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