Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers/pinctrl: make sunxi/pinctrl-sun[4-9]* explicitly non-modular

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Tue Mar 01 2016 - 02:14:36 EST


On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:48:42PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> None of the Kconfigs for any of these drivers are tristate,
> meaning that they currently are not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the drivers there is no doubt they are builtin-only. All
> drivers get the exact same change, so they are handled in batch.
>
> Changes are (1) use builtin_platform_driver, (2) use init.h header
> (3) delete module_exit related code, (4) delete MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE,
> and (5) delete MODULE_LICENCE/MODULE_AUTHOR and associated tags.
>
> 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 etc. tags since all that information
> is already contained at the top of each file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vishnu Patekar <vishnupatekar0510@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
Maxime

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