Re: [PATCH 2/4] gpio: stmpe: make it explicitly non-modular

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed May 11 2016 - 07:48:49 EST


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:config GPIO_STMPE
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig: bool "STMPE GPIOs"
>
> ...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.
>
> Curiously, this driver was using subsys_initcall since day one, so
> we don't have the "normal" module_init replacement in this change
> like we've done in other similar driver updates.
>
> 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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij