Re: [PATCH 18/22] mfd: wm831x-i2c: Make it explicitly non-modular
From: Charles Keepax
Date: Wed Dec 05 2018 - 06:38:26 EST
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:23:25PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_WM831X_I2C
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig: bool "Wolfson Microelectronics WM831x/2x PMICs with I2C"
>
> ...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.
>
> We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a
> sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove"
> code for non-modular drivers.
>
> Since module_init was not in use by this code, the init ordering
> remains unchanged with this commit.
>
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: patches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> -static int wm831x_i2c_remove(struct i2c_client *i2c)
> -{
> - struct wm831x *wm831x = i2c_get_clientdata(i2c);
> -
> - wm831x_device_exit(wm831x);
These patches remove the only callers of wm831x_device_exit, so I
guess we should probably remove that function too?
Thanks,
Charles