Re: [PATCH 2/3] pinctrl: tegra: clean up modular vs. non-modular distinctions

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:56 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 similar changes, so they are handled in batch.
>
> We remove module.h from code that isn't doing anything modular at
> all;  if they have __init sections, then replace it with init.h.
>
> A couple drivers have module_exit() code that is essentially orphaned,
> and so we remove that.
>
> Quite a few bool drivers (hence non-modular) are converted over to
> to builtin_platform_driver().
>
> 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
> was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pritesh Raithatha <praithatha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ashwini Ghuge <aghuge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-tegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij