linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH V3 1/4] gpio: mxc: Support module build

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Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:35:45 +0000
From:   Anson Huang <anson.huang@....com>
To:     "shawnguo@...nel.org" <shawnguo@...nel.org>
CC:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH V3 1/4] gpio: mxc: Support module build

Hi, Shawn

> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/4] gpio: mxc: Support module build
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:40 AM Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Change config to tristate, add module device table, module author,
> > description and license to support module build for i.MX GPIO driver.
> >
> > As this is a SoC GPIO module, it provides common functions for most of
> > the peripheral devices, such as GPIO pins control, secondary interrupt
> > controller for GPIO pins IRQ etc., without GPIO driver, most of the
> > peripheral devices will NOT work properly, so GPIO module is similar
> > with clock, pinctrl driver that should be loaded ONCE and never
> > unloaded.
> >
> > Since MXC GPIO driver needs to have init function to register syscore
> > ops once, here still use subsys_initcall(), NOT module_platform_driver().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>
> 
> This patch (1) applied to the GPIO tree.
> Please apply the rest through the ARM SoC tree!
> 

Could you please help pick the rest patch of this series? Otherwise, the i.MX GPIO driver will NOT
be enabled by default and it will block kernel boot.

Thanks,
Anson