Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: vt8500: make bool drivers explicitly non-modular

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> None of the Kconfigs for any of these drivers are tristate, meaning
> that they currently are not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the drivers there is no doubt they are builtin-only.  All
> drivers get the exact same change, so they are handled in batch.
>
> Changes are (1) use builtin_platform_driver, (2) use init.h header
> (3) delete module_exit related code, (4) delete MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE,
> (5) delete MODULE_LICENCE/MODULE_AUTHOR and associated tags and (6)
> drop ".remove" code and prevent sysfs unbind attempts to call ".remove".
>
> Once this is done, the shared remove function in wmt.[ch] is no longer
> used and hence it is removed as well.
>
> 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 etc. tags since all that information
> is already contained at the top of each file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Tony Prisk <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij