linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] mfd: as3722: Make it explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2016 13:56:07 +0100
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Florian Lobmaier <florian.lobmaier@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mfd: as3722: Make it explicitly non-modular

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> [Re: [PATCH 2/6] mfd: as3722: Make it explicitly non-modular] On 05/07/2016 (Tue 11:18) Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tuesday 05 July 2016 06:55 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > >The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> > >
> > >drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_AS3722
> > >drivers/mfd/Kconfig:    bool "ams AS3722 Power Management IC"
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Should we convert this to as "tristate" so that it can be built as module
> > also.
> 
> Seems to compile and modpost w/o missing symbols as tristate:
> 
> paul@...-builder:~/git/linux-head$ ls -l ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 13010 Jul  6 12:30 ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.ko
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul  1937 Jul  6 12:28 ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.mod.c
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul  3820 Jul  6 12:29 ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.mod.o
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 11292 Jul  6 12:13 ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.o
> paul@...-builder:~/git/linux-head$ 
> 
> ...so I'll drop this patch in favour of the one line tristate conversion in v2.

Did you ever get around to submitting a v2?

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