From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Florian Lobmaier <florian.lobmaier@ams.com>,
Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>,
Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] mfd: trivial demodularization of non-modular drivers.
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:40:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160912144054.27522-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> (raw)
I grouped this little series of mfd commits together because of the
common theme of their relatively trivial use of modular infrastructure
in these non-modular drivers.
What that means is there are no orphaned __exit functions to remove;
no unused ".remove" functions linked into the driver struct to be
deleted -- so in the end we have binary equivalence between the
pre-patched code and the post-patched code. Easy to review and low risk.
More specifically - the only thing we are doing here is mapping the
initcall that binds in the driver from the module variant to the
built-in variant ; something that CPP would do for us anyway -- and
then throwing away any MODULE_ tags which are no-ops in non-modular
builds (while preserving any author/desc. info they had in comments).
And in doing that, we can toss the include of module.h in favour of
init.h (asssuming it wasn't included already).
One exception is patch #2; it converts a driver from bool to tristate,
as was asked per the v1 review[1]. This has been build tested, but
I don't have the specific hardware for run time testing.
For anyone new to the underlying goal of this cleanup, we are trying to
make driver code consistent with the Makefiles/Kconfigs that control them.
This means not using modular functions/macros for drivers that can never
be built as a module. Some of the other downfalls this leads to are:
(1) it is easy to accidentally write unused module_exit and remove code
(2) it can be misleading when reading the source, thinking it can be
modular when the Makefile and/or Kconfig prohibit it
(3) it requires the include of the module.h header file which in turn
includes nearly everything else, thus adding to CPP overhead.
(4) it gets copied/replicated into other drivers and spreads like weeds.
Build tested on linux-next for arm, arm64 and x86-64 to ensure no typos
or similar issues crept in.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160705012544.14143-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Paul.
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[v1 --> v2: make one driver tristate, add some Ackd-by tags.]
Cc: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Florian Lobmaier <florian.lobmaier@ams.com>
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>
Cc: Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Paul Gortmaker (6):
mfd: altera-a10sr: make it explicitly non-modular
mfd: as3722: convert MFD_AS3722 from bool to tristate
mfd: intel_msic: Make it explicitly non-modular
mfd: smsc-ece1099: Make it explicitly non-modular
mfd: sun6i-prcm: Make it explicitly non-modular
mfd: twl-core: Make it explicitly non-modular
drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/mfd/altera-a10sr.c | 14 ++++++--------
drivers/mfd/intel_msic.c | 9 ++-------
drivers/mfd/smsc-ece1099.c | 11 ++---------
drivers/mfd/sun6i-prcm.c | 8 ++------
drivers/mfd/twl-core.c | 9 +--------
6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
--
2.8.4
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 14:40 Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2016-09-12 14:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] mfd: twl-core: Make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker
2016-09-13 3:26 ` Tony Lindgren
2016-09-13 8:53 ` Lee Jones
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