From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpio: sodaville: make it explicitly non-modular Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:47:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1462838398-10725-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1462838398-10725-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com ([209.85.218.49]:34570 "EHLO mail-oi0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751670AbcEKLrf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2016 07:47:35 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f49.google.com with SMTP id k142so62783902oib.1 for ; Wed, 11 May 2016 04:47:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1462838398-10725-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Hans J . Koch" , Alexandre Courbot , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: > > drivers/gpio/Kconfig:config GPIO_SODAVILLE > drivers/gpio/Kconfig: bool "Intel Sodaville GPIO support" > > ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. > > Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that > when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. > > We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a > sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove" > code for non-modular drivers. > > Since module_pci_driver() uses the same init level as the > builtin_pci_driver() does, there is no init ordering change > caused by this commit. > > We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that. > > We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information > was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments. > > Cc: Hans J. Koch > Cc: Linus Walleij > Cc: Alexandre Courbot > Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Patch applied. Yours, Linus Walleij