linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: Add builtin_spi_driver() to avoid registration boilerplate

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:41:44 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Add builtin_spi_driver() to avoid registration
 boilerplate

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> Looking at the existing use case - in:

>   drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/panel/tpo_tj032md01bw.c

> it would appear that the SPI driver is embedded within another driver
> that the author decided to make non-modular.  Others that don't actually
> use the module_spi_driver macro but are also non modular are drivers/mfd
> wm831x-spi.c and stmpe-spi.c -- I'm guessing based on the above that you
> will suggest we convert those to tristate.

Well, the question you have to ask yourself is if the code really has to
be non-modular - what is the strong reason the code looks like this?
The panel embedding one driver in another seems like a bit of an
abstraction problem.

> At a more general level, if we have provided infrastructural helpers
> like module_xyz() then it seems sensible IMHO to have the parallel
> equivalent of builtin_xyz() so that we don't force non-modular code to
> require an include of <module.h> to build.

That really doesn't seem like the end of the world, and like I say if
we're not expecting sensible use cases it might even be a bad thing to
encourage people to do this.

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