linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: create builtin_i2c_driver to avoid registration boilerplate

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Message-ID: <20160113100642.GB1540@katana>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:06:42 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: create builtin_i2c_driver to avoid registration
 boilerplate

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 03:33:19PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> In commit f309d4443130bf814e991f836e919dca22df37ae ("platform_device:
> better support builtin boilerplate avoidance") we introduced the
> builtin_driver macro.
> 
> Here we use that support and extend it to I2C driver registration,
> so where a driver is clearly non-modular and builtin-only, we can
> register it in a similar fashion.  And existing code that is clearly
> non-modular can be updated with the simple mapping of
> 
>      module_i2c_driver(...)  ---> builtin_i2c_driver(...)
> 
> We've essentially cloned the former to make the latter, and taken
> out the remove/module_exit parts since those never get used in a
> non-modular build of the code.
> 
> A similar thing was done in commit b4eb6cdbbd13698704863f680c643c569909e1c2
> ("PCI: Add builtin_pci_driver() to avoid registration boilerplate").
> 
> Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied to for-next (i.e. v4.5), thanks!


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