linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "pinctrl: amd: make it explicitly non-modular"

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:44:40 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	<linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "pinctrl: amd: make it explicitly non-modular"

[Re: [PATCH] Revert "pinctrl: amd: make it explicitly non-modular"] On 19/07/2016 (Tue 10:46) Jean Delvare wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:30:30 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > This reverts commit b8c2b10a9bc0272a20e096852f8fbbf361749dda.
> > 
> > This patch was in my queue at the same time that a conversion of
> > the same driver from bool --> tristate was pending and merged.
> > 
> > That is commit 337ea0fb1535 ("pinctrl: Turn AMD support to tristate")
> 
> I can't find this commit anywhere, but I would certainly prefer this to
> making the driver non-modular. So I vote in favor of this revert.

It is a mainline commit, so I guess you need to pull in the last couple
months of commits...

   paul@...lder-02:~/git/linux-head$ git describe --contains 337ea0fb1535
   v4.6-rc1~149^2~35
   paul@...lder-02:~/git/linux-head$ git show v4.6-rc1~149
   commit 5ca5446ec5ba5e79a6f271cd026bb153d6850fcc
   Merge: 710d60cbf1b3 3c177a166253
   Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
   Date:   Tue Mar 15 20:23:13 2016 -0700
   
       Merge tag 'pinctrl-v4.6-1' of
   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl
   
       Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij:
   
I didn't bother marking it for 4.6 stable since it used to be builtin
only and even with the crossed patches, it still would have been builtin;
it just wouldn't respect the newly available tristate option if chosen.

Thanks,
Paul.
-- 


> 
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support