Re: [PATCH v4 05/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: split WMI descriptor into it's own driver

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Oct 05 2017 - 01:29:17 EST


On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 05:48:31PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> All communication on individual GUIDs should occur in separate drivers.
>> Allowing a driver to communicate with the bus to another GUID is just
>> a hack that discourages drivers to adopt the bus model.
>>
>> The information found from the WMI descriptor driver is now exported
>> for use by other drivers.

> You'll want to add something like:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DELL_WMI_DESCRIPTOR_MODULE
> if (request_module("dell_wmi_descriptor"))
> /* FAIL */
> #endif
>
> During init.

I don't think #ifdef is needed.

We may just request module.

But looking in the code it seems that we simple need to select that
module. No request_module will be needed.
Did I miss something?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko