linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] pinctrl: spear: make bool drivers explicitly non-modular

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdYXTDDteyjWm3GOsmgdhzw7nM-8tGe7t9Reo+vznX99OA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:24:19 +0100
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>,
        Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>,
        spear-devel <spear-devel@...t.st.com>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] pinctrl: spear: make bool drivers explicitly non-modular

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:

> None of the Kconfigs for any of these drivers are tristate,
> meaning that they currently are not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the drivers there is no doubt they are builtin-only.  All
> drivers get the exact same change, so they are handled in batch.
>
> Changes are (1) use init.h header in place of module.h header,
> (2) delete module_exit related code, (3) delete MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE,
> and (4) delete MODULE_LICENCE/MODULE_AUTHOR and associated tags.
>
> None of these drivers were using module_init() so we don't have to
> worry about the init ordering getting changed with this commit.
>
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE etc. tags since all that information
> is already contained at the top of each file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: spear-devel@...t.st.com
> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij