Re: [PATCH 9/9] pinctrl: at91-pio4: make it explicitly non-modular

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig:config PINCTRL_AT91PIO4
> drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig:        bool "AT91 PIO4 pinctrl driver"
>
> ...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
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied with Ludovic's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij