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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtd: nand: Force omap_elm to be built as a module if
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 05:56:36PM +0100, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Ultimately, I don't care much as I don't think anyone will build it as a module,
> except maybe for testing the driver under probe/remove cycles.

I see that you sort of answered one of my questions here. On what do you
base this claim? I see maintstream distros are gaining support for some
common ARM platforms, and I bet they ship loadable modules. Or are you
seeing otherwise?

Brian