Re: [PATCH 6/6] mfd: twl-core: Make it explicitly non-modular

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 23:26:37 EST


* Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [160912 07:41]:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config TWL4030_CORE
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig: bool "TI TWL4030/TWL5030/TWL6030/TPS659x0 Support"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove what modular code that we can, so that when reading the
> driver there is less doubt that it is builtin-only. Note that we can't
> remove the twl_remove() itself ; it is still used by the probe unwind
> routine. So we leave it linked into the .remove as well, even though
> it will most likely never be called via that path from an unbind.
>
> Since module_i2c_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_i2c_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: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah makes sense to me:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>