linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpio: sodaville: make it explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Wed, 11 May 2016 13:47:34 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Hans J . Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpio: sodaville: make it explicitly non-modular

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:config GPIO_SODAVILLE
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:   bool "Intel Sodaville GPIO support"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>
> We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a
> sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove"
> code for non-modular drivers.
>
> Since module_pci_driver() uses the same init level as the
> builtin_pci_driver() does, there is no init ordering change
> caused by this commit.
>
> We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that.
>
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Hans J. Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij