RE: [PATCH V2 3/9] clk: imx: Support building SCU clock driver as module

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Aisheng Dong (2020-06-17 18:58:51)
> > From: Anson Huang <anson.huang@xxxxxxx>
> > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MXC_CLK_SCU) += mxc-clk-scu.o
> > >
> > > Like i.MX pinctrl, I'm not sure if it's really necessary to build core
> > > libraries as modules. Probably the simplest way is only building
> > > platform drivers part as module. And leave those core libraries built in kernel.
> > > This may make the code a bit cleaner.
> > >
> > 
> > Will discuss this with Linaro guys about it, previous requirement I received is all
> > SoC specific modules need to be built as module.
> > 
> 
> Okay. AFAIK it's not conflict.
> You still make drivers into modules.
> Only difference is for those common libraries part, we don't convert them into module
> Which is less meaningless.
>  

What is the benefit of making the core part of the SoC driver not a
module? From the module perspective it should be perfectly fine to make
it a module as well, and then depmod will sort out loading modules in
the right order.

This is for android right?