Re: [PATCH 3/3] soc: fsl: make guts driver explicitly non-modular

From: Scott Wood
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 00:11:01 EST


On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 14:03 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/soc/fsl/Kconfig:config FSL_GUTS
> drivers/soc/fsl/Kconfig:ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂbool
>
> ...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 the code was already not using module_init, the init ordering
> remains unchanged with this commit.
>
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> Cc: Scott Wood <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Scott Wood <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Scott