linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] clk: mvebu: make cp110-system-controller explicitly non-modular

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Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:32:49 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:     Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] clk: mvebu: make cp110-system-controller
 explicitly non-modular

On 07/04, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> drivers/clk/mvebu/Kconfig:config ARMADA_CP110_SYSCON
> drivers/clk/mvebu/Kconfig:      bool
> 
> ...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: Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
> Cc: linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> ---

Applied to clk-next

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