Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 10 2015 - 11:38:56 EST


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:24:15AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches enable building of timed_gpio, sync* and ashmem as a module

Why do you want to do this? Does it ever make sense to do this type of
thing for your kernel? What does changing these to modules enable you
to do differently?

As it is, I think the code should stay non-modular.

thanks,

greg k-h
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