netdev - Re: [PATCH-next v2 0/4] make non-modular code explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...mgrid.com, anish@...lsio.com,
	kraig@...gle.com, daniel@...earbox.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	jhs@...atatu.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com,
	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	shanim@...lanox.com, varkabhadram@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH-next v2 0/4] make non-modular code explicitly
 non-modular

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 17:27:42 -0400

> [v2: drop m68k patches that Geert converted to modules; add one ARM
>  driver patch ; update net-next baseline to today; switch to ARM
>  for build testing.]
> 
> In a previous merge window, we made changes to allow better
> delineation between modular and non-modular code in commit
> 0fd972a7d91d6e15393c449492a04d94c0b89351 ("module: relocate module_init
> from init.h to module.h").  This allows us to now ensure module code
> looks modular and non-modular code does not accidentally look modular
> just to avoid suffering build breakage.
> 
> Here we target code that is, by nature of their Makefile and/or
> Kconfig settings, only available to be built-in, but implicitly
> presenting itself as being possibly modular by way of using modular
> headers, macros, and functions.
> 
> The goal here is to remove that illusion of modularity from these
> files, but in a way that leaves the actual runtime unchanged.
> In doing so, we remove code that has never been tested and adds
> no value to the tree.  And we continue the process of expecting a
> level of consistency between the Kconfig/Makefile of code and the
> code in use itself.
> 
> Fortuntately the net subsystem has relatively few instances, given
> the overall amount of code and drivers it contains.  For comparison
> there are over 300 instances tree wide, resulting in a possible net
> removal of on the order of 5000 lines of unused code.
> 
> Build tested on net-next from today, on ARM, since that is the arch
> where the one ethernet driver changed here is available.

Series applied, thanks Paul.
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