Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/mfd: make max77686.c explicitly non-modular

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Sun Apr 03 2016 - 23:45:01 EST


On 04.04.2016 06:24, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_MAX77686
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig: bool "Maxim Semiconductor MAX77686/802 PMIC Support"
>
> ...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 not in use by this code, 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
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/max77686.c | 26 ++------------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

+Cc Javier,

I think we want to proceed with Javier's work for max77686:
mfd: max77686: Allow the driver to be built as a module
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1602.1/03921.html

Javier, what is the status of your patchset? What do you need?

Best regards,
Krzysztof