linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 11/10] PCI: kirin: Allow building it as a module

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:55:07 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mauro.chehab@...wei.com>,
        Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@...ux.com>,
        Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Henry Styles <hes@...ive.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Wesley Sheng <wesley.sheng@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 11/10] PCI: kirin: Allow building it as a module

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:15 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> There's nothing preventing this driver to be loaded as a
> module. So, change its config from bool to tristate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>

No objections from me, but I wonder if you would also consider making the
module removable. It's currently marked as 'builtin_platform_driver',
so you can load but not remove it. Rob has done some bug fixes that make
it possible to remove similar drivers, so it's probably not much work
here either.

     Arnd