Re: [PATCH 0/4] sh: fix up modular use in non-modular code

[Yoshinori Sato]

On Fri, 27 May 2016 01:53:34 +0900,
Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:45:57PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > [[PATCH 0/4] sh: fix up modular use in non-modular code] On 22/04/2016 (Fri 14:07) Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > 
> > > For anyone new to the underlying goal of this cleanup, we are trying to
> > > make kernel code consistent with the Makefiles/Kconfigs that control them.
> > 
> > Ping -- wondering if there are any issues here, or if I can expect these
> > to be merged upstream in the merge window.  I didn't see them loop
> > around via the linux-next tree but I wasn't sure if arch/sh has a repo
> > for linux-next.
> 
> I don't have experience with the affected code, but it looks ok unless
> any of these "should" be modular and Kconfig was just wrong to
> disallow it.
> 
> Sato-san, do you have an opinion on these? Should I go ahead and just
> merge them?

It looks no problem.
I think can merge it.

> Rich
> 
> > > This means not using modular functions/macros for code that can never
> > > be built as a module.  Some of the other downfalls this leads to are:
> > > 
> > >  (1) it is easy to accidentally write unused module_exit and remove code
> > >  (2) it can be misleading when reading the source, thinking it can be
> > >      modular when the Makefile and/or Kconfig prohibit it
> > >  (3) it requires the include of the module.h header file which in turn
> > >      includes nearly everything else, thus adding to CPP overhead.
> > >  (4) it gets copied/replicated into other drivers and spreads like weeds.
> > > 
> > > Three of the four commits here are completely trivial with zero runtime
> > > impact whatsoever.  The fourth has a deletion of a ".remove" function
> > > and as we've done elsewhere, we block the sysfs ability to reach in and
> > > manually execute that function, since there isn't a sane use case for
> > > which doing that makes sense.
> > > 
> > > Build tested on today's linux-next ; full build fails on duplicate syms
> > > from OF generic board, but that is a known and reported issue elsewhere;
> > > it has nothing to do with the changes here.
> > > 
> > > Paul
> > > --
> > > 
> > > Cc: linux-sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Paul Gortmaker (4):
> > >   sh: make time.c explicitly non-modular
> > >   sh: make mm/asids-debugfs explicitly non-modular
> > >   sh: make board-secureedge5410 explicitly non-modular
> > >   sh: make heartbeat driver explicitly non-modular
> > > 
> > >  arch/sh/boards/board-secureedge5410.c |  3 +--
> > >  arch/sh/drivers/heartbeat.c           | 32 +++-----------------------------
> > >  arch/sh/kernel/time.c                 |  3 +--
> > >  arch/sh/mm/asids-debugfs.c            |  5 +----
> > >  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 2.8.0
> > > 
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Yoshinori Sato
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