Re: [PATCH 2/9] pinctrl: baytrail: make it explicitly non-modular

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 10:11:31 EST


On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:43:01PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> config PINCTRL_BAYTRAIL
> bool "Intel Baytrail GPIO pin control"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>
> We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a
> sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove"
> code for non-modular drivers.
>
> Since module_init() was already not in use in this driver, we don't
> have any concerns with init ordering changes here.
>
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, probably good thing to do. No objections from me.

Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>