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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	Valentine Barshak <valentine.barshak@cogentembedded.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] drivers/pci: use builtin_platform_driver in renesas
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 20:37:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160108203737.GJ5354@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450745949-23882-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 07:59:07PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> These two commits are extracted from what was a larger series[1] of
> demodularization in PCI host code that was bool Kconfig.
> 
> With the other commits, there was some mixed opinions whether we
> should make it explicitly non-modular or move towards making it
> functionally working as a tristate in order to reduce the size of
> built-in code for multi-platform kernels.
> 
> However with the renesas changes, there was no ".remove" and no
> "module_exit" code stripped out ; it is just a straight 1:1 mapping
> of the modular macros onto what they become in the non-modular case
> anyway -- meaning the runtime remains unchanged.

Is there any reason these drivers can't be made modular?  I'd rather
do that, if we can.

Bjorn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-08 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-22  0:59 [PATCH 0/2] drivers/pci: use builtin_platform_driver in renesas Paul Gortmaker
2015-12-22  0:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] drivers/pci: make host/pcie-rcar.c explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker
2015-12-22  8:30   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-12-22 16:20     ` Paul Gortmaker
2015-12-22  0:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers/pci: make host/pci-rcar-gen2.c " Paul Gortmaker
2016-01-08 20:37 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2016-01-19  4:19   ` [PATCH 0/2] drivers/pci: use builtin_platform_driver in renesas Paul Gortmaker

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