Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_ingenic.c explicitly non-modular"

[Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>]

[[PATCH v2 2/6] Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_ingenic.c explicitly non-modular"] On 11/02/2016 (Thu 16:41) Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> This reverts commit cafe1ac64023, which tried to remove dead code but
> left the driver in a useless state when the main 8250 driver is a
> loadable module. This would normally result in a link error, but
> as the entire drivers/tty/serial/8250/ directory is only entered
> when CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is set, we never notice that the driver does
> not get built in this configuration.

Same comments apply here as per 1/6.

OTOH, if you were to say that 8250=m and this driver =y is a useless
configuration, and the easiest way to rectify that was to convert it
to tristate, and hence we revert cafe1ac64023 to regain some modular
code -- that would make more sense to me.

P.
--

> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Fixes: cafe1ac64023 ("drivers/tty: make serial 8250_ingenic.c explicitly non-modular")
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c
> index b4e1d39805b2..97b78558caed 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c
> @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
>   *
>   * Ingenic SoC UART support
>   *
> - * Author: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
> - *
>   * This program is free software; you can redistribute	 it and/or modify it
>   * under  the terms of	 the GNU General  Public License as published by the
>   * Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the	License, or (at your
> @@ -20,7 +18,7 @@
>  #include <linux/console.h>
>  #include <linux/io.h>
>  #include <linux/libfdt.h>
> -#include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
>  #include <linux/of_device.h>
> @@ -303,6 +301,16 @@ out:
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> +static int ingenic_uart_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> +	struct ingenic_uart_data *data = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +
> +	serial8250_unregister_port(data->line);
> +	clk_disable_unprepare(data->clk_module);
> +	clk_disable_unprepare(data->clk_baud);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static const struct ingenic_uart_config jz4740_uart_config = {
>  	.tx_loadsz = 8,
>  	.fifosize = 16,
> @@ -325,13 +333,19 @@ static const struct of_device_id of_match[] = {
>  	{ .compatible = "ingenic,jz4780-uart", .data = &jz4780_uart_config },
>  	{ /* sentinel */ }
>  };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, of_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver ingenic_uart_platform_driver = {
>  	.driver = {
> -		.name			= "ingenic-uart",
> -		.of_match_table		= of_match,
> -		.suppress_bind_attrs	= true,
> +		.name		= "ingenic-uart",
> +		.of_match_table	= of_match,
>  	},
>  	.probe			= ingenic_uart_probe,
> +	.remove			= ingenic_uart_remove,
>  };
> -builtin_platform_driver(ingenic_uart_platform_driver);
> +
> +module_platform_driver(ingenic_uart_platform_driver);
> +
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Burton");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Ingenic SoC UART driver");
> -- 
> 2.7.0
>