Re: [PATCH 17/19] pinctrl: imx23: make it explicitly non-modular

[Linus Walleij]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig:config PINCTRL_IMX23
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig:      bool
>
> ...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 wasn't actually used by this 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
> was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij