Re: [PATCH] drivers/leds: don't use module_init in non-modular leds-cobalt-raq.c

[Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>]

Hi Paul,

On 06/16/2015 12:12 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> This file is built for a bool Kconfig variable, and hence this
> code is either present or absent.  It currently can never be
> modular, so using module_init as an alias for __initcall can be
> somewhat misleading.
>
> Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
> init.h into module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd
> have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
> would be a worse thing.
>
> Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
> of the priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets
> mapped onto device_initcall, our use of device_initcall
> directly in this change means that the runtime impact is
> zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering.
>
> And since it can't be modular, we remove all the __exitcall
> stuff related to module_exit() -- it is dead code that won't
> ever be executed.
>
> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
> Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---
> [
>   To be appended to the branch content originally sent as:
>   "Replace module_init with device_initcall in non modules"
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432860493-23831-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
> ]
>
>   drivers/leds/leds-cobalt-raq.c | 15 +--------------
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>

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Best Regards,
Jacek Anaszewski