Re: [PATCH 1/4] reset: ath79: make it explicitly non-modular

From: Alban
Date: Thu Feb 09 2017 - 04:07:23 EST


On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 19:18:44 -0500
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/reset/Kconfig:config RESET_ATH79
> drivers/reset/Kconfig: bool "AR71xx Reset Driver" if COMPILE_TEST
>
> ...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_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
>
> 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
> was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>

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