RE: [PATCH v2 00/22] mfd: demodularization of non-modular drivers

From: Steve Twiss
Date: Wed Aug 07 2019 - 06:43:11 EST


Hi Paul,

I will not be able to make these changes to support modularity any more.

Although the support.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx e-mail address for Support
is still working, I will not be able to review your patches if you were to re-send
them again.

Regards,
Stephen

On 07 December 2018 20:30, Paul Gortmaker
> > On 03 December 2018 04:23, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > Subject: [PATCH v2 00/22] mfd: demodularization of non-modular drivers
> > >
> > > [v1 --> v2: add some more commits as requested by Lee (MFD maintainer),
> > > update the 00/NN text; re-do build and link testing on new linux-next. ]
> > >
> > > This group of MFD drivers are all controlled by "bool" Kconfig settings,
> > > but contain various amounts of largely pointless uses of infrastructure
> > > related to modular operations, even though they can't be built modular.
> > >
> > > We can easily remove/replace all of it. We are trying to make driver
> > > code consistent with the Makefiles/Kconfigs that control them.
> >
> > For the DA9052 and DA9055, changes:
> >
> > - drivers/mfd/da9052-core.c | 11 -----------
> > - drivers/mfd/da9052-i2c.c | 22 ++-------------------
> > - drivers/mfd/da9052-irq.c | 1 -
> > - drivers/mfd/da9052-spi.c | 22 ++-------------------
> > - drivers/mfd/da9055-core.c | 13 ++-----------
> > - drivers/mfd/da9055-i2c.c | 24 ++---------------------
> >
> > The responsibility can fall back to Dialog for these changes. We will
> > submit Kconfig patches for these and make them explicitly non-modular.
> > This will remove the ambiguity caused by the Kconfig bool options.
>
> Just FYI, I dropped the diasemi commits from my v3 send.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1544213465-16259-1-git-send-email-
> paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Thanks for taking on the modular conversions.