linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpuidle: avoid module usage in non-modular code

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Message-ID: <8909604.csvS2fCWyS@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 22:31:44 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@...l.ru>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpuidle: avoid module usage in non-modular code

On Sunday, December 13, 2015 06:57:09 PM Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> This series of commits is a part of a larger project to ensure
> people don't reference modular support functions in non-modular
> code.  Overall there was roughly 5k lines of dead code in the
> kernel due to this.  So far we've fixed several areas, like tty,
> x86, net, ... and we continue to work on other areas.
> 
> There are several reasons to not use module support for code that
> can never be built as a module, but the big ones are:
> 
>  (1) it is easy to accidentally code up unused module_exit and remove code
>  (2) it can be misleading when reading the source, thinking it can be
>       modular when the Makefile and/or Kconfig prohibit it
>  (3) it requires the include of the module.h header file which in turn
>      includes nearly everything else.
> 
> Fortunately for cpuidle, the changes are largely trivial and change
> zero runtime.  All the changes here just remap the modular functions
> onto the non-modular ones that they would be remapped onto anyway.
> 
> Changes are against linux-next and compile tested on ARM allmodconfig.
> I've Cc'd ARM list because all of these are used on ARM, but I'm
> thinking these probably can go in via the PM tree.

If no one objects, I can queue up this series for 4.5 unless you have other
plans with respect to it.

Thanks,
Rafael

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