Re: [PATCH 18/18] mfd: wm8400-core: Make it explicitly non-modular

[Paul Gortmaker]

[Re: [PATCH 18/18] mfd: wm8400-core: Make it explicitly non-modular] On 19/12/2018 (Wed 09:17) Charles Keepax wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 03:31:28PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> > 
> > drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_WM8400
> > drivers/mfd/Kconfig:    bool "Wolfson Microelectronics WM8400"
> > 
> > ...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.
> > 
> > Since module_init was not in use by this code, the init ordering
> > remains unchanged with this commit.
> > 
> > A trivial function rename from wm8400_module_init to the name
> > wm8400_driver_init is also done to reduce possible confusion.
> > 
> > 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
> > is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
> > 
> > Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: patches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > -MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, wm8400_i2c_id);
> >  
> >  static struct i2c_driver wm8400_i2c_driver = {
> >  	.driver = {
> > @@ -161,7 +160,7 @@ static struct i2c_driver wm8400_i2c_driver = {
> >  };
> >  #endif
> 
> Do we not want to add suppress_bind_attrs into the i2c_driver
> struct here?

We can add one if you/maintainers want one, but if you look at the
original patch, this driver was using the more classic/legacy case of
subsys_init() vs. platform_driver_register() used in other drivers.

Not adding a suppress_bind_attrs here was intentional, since I'd decided
to put in the unbind entries for code that used platform_driver_register()
where the author had created the .remove code, on the assumption that they
had put some thought into the process of unbind/remove - to make it
explicit that unbind is now disabled.

To be clear, using the subsys_init() doesn't implicitly disable unbind.
However, there are lots of non-modular drivers out there; ones I've not
even touched, and to start a project to add an unbind disable to them
all is beyond the scope of the goals I've listed in the 00/18 preamble.

I'd hope maybe we can revisit the global default setting for non-modular
code someday - to make non-modules opt-in instead of opt-out, and
achieve better consistency from one driver to the next, without having
to add a new .driver sub-struct to each file for the suppress entry.

I think LinusW hinted at in an earlier email in this ongoing review,
that the default setting didn't quite make sense to him either.  But in
any case, that is a separate discussion for another time and place.

Let me know if you explicitly want one added, otherwise I'll just leave
the .remove + .suppress_bind_attrs pairing as described above.

Thanks,
Paul.
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> 
> Thanks, Charles