Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: bcm: clean up modular vs. non-modular distinctions

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 05/23/2017 05:12 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: bcm: clean up modular vs. non-modular distinctions] On 23/05/2017 (Tue 15:15) Scott Branden wrote:
> 
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Some comments - leave our file headers intact.  If you want to add a new
>> comment do so after the existing file header in another comment.  But, I
>> don't think any of that information is needed by us.
> 
> OK, no problem, if that is what is desired for your driver.  I just
> normally move the author information from the bottom of the file to the
> top of the file.  As a lot of the linux driver work was (is?) done for
> kudos and not for career, I can't just delete author information.  That
> would not be fair to most of those contributors.
> 
> It hasn't been a problem before in all of the other similar commits I've
> made, but I can imagine a tool that does a check on the comment block on
> the top of a file and complains if it changes, or similar.
> 
> Would you prefer something like this instead?  It leaves your header
> completely untouched, and still gives credit to the original author,
> and those lines are also untouched.

This looks horrible, sorry. Scott, what's the matter with moving the
authors listed in MODULE_AUTHOR() into the header?

If it was up to me, I would just remove the MODULE_* parts and if I need
to look up the author, git log is my friend.

> 
> I've not re-done build coverage on this yet, but let me know if this is
> what you'd prefer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> --
> 
>  From 3f8bf38bcdbf38484182222965aac2748cc1d5cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:35:47 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] pinctrl: bcm: clean up modular vs. non-modular distinctions
> 
> Fixups here tend to be more of a conglomerate of some of the other
> repeated/systematic ones we've seen in the earlier pinctrl cleanups.
> 
> We remove module.h from code that isn't doing anything modular at
> all;  if they have __init sections, then replace it with init.h
> 
> One driver has a .remove that would be dispatched on module_exit,
> and as that code is essentially orphaned, so we remove it.  In case
> anyone was previously doing the (pointless) unbind to get to that
> function, we disable unbind for this one driver as well.
> 
> A couple bool drivers (hence non-modular) are converted over to
> to builtin_platform_driver().
> 
> Since module_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
> 
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> We leave the MODULE_AUTHOR and MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. at the bottom
> of the file since Broadcom would prefer the comment block at the top
> of the file remain unchanged.  We just use CPP to take it out of the
> picture with an #if 0 / #endif instead.
> 
> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jon Mason <jonmason@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
> Cc: Sherman Yin <syin@broadcom.com>
> Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm281xx.c   |  7 ++++---
>  drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c    | 18 +++++-------------
>  drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-cygnus-mux.c |  3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm281xx.c b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm281xx.c
> index 810a81786f62..cc01acc988d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm281xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm281xx.c
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>   */
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/io.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>  #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
> @@ -1444,10 +1444,11 @@ static struct platform_driver bcm281xx_pinctrl_driver = {
>  		.of_match_table = bcm281xx_pinctrl_of_match,
>  	},
>  };
> +builtin_platform_driver_probe(bcm281xx_pinctrl_driver, bcm281xx_pinctrl_probe);
>  
> -module_platform_driver_probe(bcm281xx_pinctrl_driver, bcm281xx_pinctrl_probe);
> -
> +#if 0 /* ...def MODULE ; never supported as such; kept for documentation. */
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Broadcom Corporation <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Sherman Yin <syin@broadcom.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom BCM281xx pinctrl driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +#endif
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c
> index 85d009112864..3924ff17e955 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-bcm2835.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  #include <linux/io.h>
>  #include <linux/irq.h>
>  #include <linux/irqdesc.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/of_address.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
> @@ -1075,31 +1075,23 @@ static int bcm2835_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int bcm2835_pinctrl_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> -{
> -	struct bcm2835_pinctrl *pc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> -
> -	gpiochip_remove(&pc->gpio_chip);
> -
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
>  static const struct of_device_id bcm2835_pinctrl_match[] = {
>  	{ .compatible = "brcm,bcm2835-gpio" },
>  	{}
>  };
> -MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, bcm2835_pinctrl_match);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver bcm2835_pinctrl_driver = {
>  	.probe = bcm2835_pinctrl_probe,
> -	.remove = bcm2835_pinctrl_remove,
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name = MODULE_NAME,
>  		.of_match_table = bcm2835_pinctrl_match,
> +		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
>  	},
>  };
> -module_platform_driver(bcm2835_pinctrl_driver);
> +builtin_platform_driver(bcm2835_pinctrl_driver);
>  
> +#if 0 /* ...def MODULE ; never supported as such; kept for documentation. */
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Chris Boot, Simon Arlott, Stephen Warren");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("BCM2835 Pin control driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +#endif
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-cygnus-mux.c b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-cygnus-mux.c
> index d31c95701a92..84c2a182a5b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-cygnus-mux.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-cygnus-mux.c
> @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/err.h>
>  #include <linux/io.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> @@ -1017,6 +1016,8 @@ static int __init cygnus_pinmux_init(void)
>  }
>  arch_initcall(cygnus_pinmux_init);
>  
> +#if 0 /* ...def MODULE ; never supported as such; kept for documentation. */
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom Cygnus IOMUX driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +#endif
> 


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Florian