linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] pinctrl: at91-pio4: make it explicitly non-modular

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZJ-BpLuCAk5ZDwn-Mg07sn7M2wFxxs_+Kyf-exRoHhTA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:39:54 +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>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] pinctrl: at91-pio4: make it explicitly non-modular

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig:config PINCTRL_AT91PIO4
> drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig:        bool "AT91 PIO4 pinctrl driver"
>
> ...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_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 tag etc. since all that information
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Patch applied with Ludovic's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij