Re: [PATCH 14/18] mfd: wm831x-i2c: Make it explicitly non-modular

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Mon Dec 10 2018 - 04:25:57 EST


On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 03:11:01PM -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
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Charles