linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] soc: fsl: make guts driver explicitly non-modular

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:10:24 -0600
From:   Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>
To:     Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] soc: fsl: make guts driver explicitly non-modular

On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 14:03 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> drivers/soc/fsl/Kconfig:config FSL_GUTS
> drivers/soc/fsl/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 the code was already not using module_init, the init ordering
> remains unchanged with this commit.
> 
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> Cc: Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>
> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Acked-by: Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>

-Scott