Re: [PATCH 1/6] mfd: altera-a10sr: make it explicitly non-modular

From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri Aug 05 2016 - 08:55:46 EST


On Mon, 04 Jul 2016, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_ALTERA_A10SR
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig: bool "Altera Arria10 DevKit System Resource chip"
>
> ...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.
>
> Since builtin_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> module_spi_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit. [Note that there is no builtin_spi_driver macro,
> so we open-code what it would be via builtin_driver().]
>
> 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: Thor Thayer <tthayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/altera-a10sr.c | 14 ++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/altera-a10sr.c b/drivers/mfd/altera-a10sr.c
> index c05aa4ff57fd..78c2fb7d7f33 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/altera-a10sr.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/altera-a10sr.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
> /*
> + * Altera Arria10 DevKit System Resource MFD Driver
> + *
> + * Author: Thor Thayer <tthayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> + *
> * Copyright Intel Corporation (C) 2014-2016. All Rights Reserved
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> @@ -20,7 +24,7 @@
>
> #include <linux/mfd/altera-a10sr.h>
> #include <linux/mfd/core.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/of.h>
> #include <linux/spi/spi.h>
>
> @@ -152,7 +156,6 @@ static const struct of_device_id altr_a10sr_spi_of_match[] = {
> { .compatible = "altr,a10sr" },
> { },
> };
> -MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, altr_a10sr_spi_of_match);
>
> static struct spi_driver altr_a10sr_spi_driver = {
> .probe = altr_a10sr_spi_probe,
> @@ -161,9 +164,4 @@ static struct spi_driver altr_a10sr_spi_driver = {
> .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(altr_a10sr_spi_of_match),
> },
> };
> -
> -module_spi_driver(altr_a10sr_spi_driver);
> -
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> -MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer <tthayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Altera Arria10 DevKit System Resource MFD Driver");
> +builtin_driver(altr_a10sr_spi_driver, spi_register_driver)

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Lee Jones
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