linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] sh: fix up modular use in non-modular code

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 12:45:57 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] sh: fix up modular use in non-modular code

[[PATCH 0/4] sh: fix up modular use in non-modular code] On 22/04/2016 (Fri 14:07) Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> For anyone new to the underlying goal of this cleanup, we are trying to
> make kernel code consistent with the Makefiles/Kconfigs that control them.

Ping -- wondering if there are any issues here, or if I can expect these
to be merged upstream in the merge window.  I didn't see them loop
around via the linux-next tree but I wasn't sure if arch/sh has a repo
for linux-next.

Thanks,
Paul.
--

> 
> This means not using modular functions/macros for code that can never
> be built as a module.  Some of the other downfalls this leads to are:
> 
>  (1) it is easy to accidentally write unused module_exit and remove code
>  (2) it can be misleading when reading the source, thinking it can be
>      modular when the Makefile and/or Kconfig prohibit it
>  (3) it requires the include of the module.h header file which in turn
>      includes nearly everything else, thus adding to CPP overhead.
>  (4) it gets copied/replicated into other drivers and spreads like weeds.
> 
> Three of the four commits here are completely trivial with zero runtime
> impact whatsoever.  The fourth has a deletion of a ".remove" function
> and as we've done elsewhere, we block the sysfs ability to reach in and
> manually execute that function, since there isn't a sane use case for
> which doing that makes sense.
> 
> Build tested on today's linux-next ; full build fails on duplicate syms
> from OF generic board, but that is a known and reported issue elsewhere;
> it has nothing to do with the changes here.
> 
> Paul
> --
> 
> Cc: linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
> 
> 
> Paul Gortmaker (4):
>   sh: make time.c explicitly non-modular
>   sh: make mm/asids-debugfs explicitly non-modular
>   sh: make board-secureedge5410 explicitly non-modular
>   sh: make heartbeat driver explicitly non-modular
> 
>  arch/sh/boards/board-secureedge5410.c |  3 +--
>  arch/sh/drivers/heartbeat.c           | 32 +++-----------------------------
>  arch/sh/kernel/time.c                 |  3 +--
>  arch/sh/mm/asids-debugfs.c            |  5 +----
>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.8.0
>