linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmpd: Allow RPMPD driver to be loaded as a module

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:38:53 -0700
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmpd: Allow RPMPD driver to be loaded as
 a module

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:37 PM Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/5/2020 11:12 AM, John Stultz wrote:
> > Allow the rpmpd driver to be loaded as a module.
>
> The last time I tried this [1], I hit a limitation with pm_genpd_remove not cleaning up things right,
> is that solved now?
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/17/1043
>

As I mentioned to Bjorn, I'll dig into this a bit to see if its
doable, but having it being a permanent/unloadable module is still an
improvement from it being stuck as a built in only.

thanks
-john