linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers/pinctrl: make sunxi/pinctrl-sun[4-9]* explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:14:28 -0800
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	Vishnu Patekar <vishnupatekar0510@...il.com>,
	linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers/pinctrl: make sunxi/pinctrl-sun[4-9]*
 explicitly non-modular

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:48:42PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> None of the Kconfigs for any of these drivers are tristate,
> meaning that they currently are not being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the drivers there is no doubt they are builtin-only.  All
> drivers get the exact same change, so they are handled in batch.
> 
> Changes are (1) use builtin_platform_driver, (2) use init.h header
> (3) delete module_exit related code, (4) delete MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE,
> and (5) delete MODULE_LICENCE/MODULE_AUTHOR and associated tags.
> 
> Since module_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
> 
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE etc. tags since all that information
> is already contained at the top of each file in the comments.
> 
> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> Cc: Vishnu Patekar <vishnupatekar0510@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>

Thanks!
Maxime

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

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