Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/serial: delete unused MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE from atmel_serial.c

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:05:46AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> In commit c39dfebc7798956fd2140ae6321786ff35da30c3 ("drivers/tty/serial:
> make serial/atmel_serial.c explicitly non-modular") we removed the code
> relating to modular support since it currently only supports built in.
> 
> However, when redoing my build coverage for mips allmodconfig, which
> sets CONFIG_OF, I noticed a remaining line that needs to be removed,
> else we will get a build failure for an undefined module macro.
> 
> Unfortunately this didn't appear for any of the other arch I tested
> more frequently, such as ARM.
> 
> Since MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code, we can just
> remove the offending line.
> 
> Fixes: c39dfebc7798 ("drivers/tty/serial: make serial/atmel_serial.c explicitly non-modular")
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---

I think this has not yet landed in linux-next. next-20151231 still
fails.

regards
sudip