linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/bus: make arm-ccn.c driver explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:30:22 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, suzuki.poulose@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/bus: make arm-ccn.c driver explicitly
 non-modular

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:53:06PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> Dnia 2016-03-29, Tue o godzinie 12:45 +0100, Will Deacon pisze:
> > I'd much rather fix the driver to build as a module, if at all
> > possible.
> > Suzuki (CC'd) is taking a look at that, so please drop this patch for
> > now.
> 
> There's no problem with building arm-ccn.c as a module - all it's
> really doing today is providing a PMU driver. I don't even know why
> have I made it bool-only in the first place...

Probably because it doesn't compile due to the irq_set_affinity call.

Will